A lot of people get hung up with the phrase interaction. However you interact all the time on Windows but we simply do not describe it as interaction. . Using Window Eyes for example you have to enter Table mode before you can interact with a table on a web page. In most screen readers you have to at some stage press enter or space to interact either with an edit box, a combo box or other elements in order to either type in text or activate a choice. This is identical to the Mac experience..
A lot of times in Windows you interact automatically with elements by pressing the tab key but you can also set up the Mac so that it also interacts with tables etc. automatically by use of the tab key. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent: 05 July 2014 16:56 To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: General Mac Query - A Clarification The way in which some of these things work can be determined by the app you are using, and how you have things set up. Interacting: For example, in the mail app, I need to interact with the messages table to read my mail. When going to an address in Safari, sometimes the page doesn't open, and I have to interact with the HTML, to open it, so that I can interact with it. I also have to interact with phrames on websites. Locally, I need to interact with the sidebar, and/or my home folder when saving files etc. It actually is quite intuitive once you get use to thinking about the phrase 'interact.' If you just want to read something, then that is what you do, but if you want to open something, select something or edit something, you may well have to 'interact.' - Andy On 5 Jul 2014, at 16:22, Eleanor Martha Burke <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, I have been coming to terms with a Mac for over 6 weeks now on a daily basis and a little before that from time to time. However there are some concepts I really cannot come to work out which by now should be fairly obvious to me. Hope someone can clarify these for me. > > At this point I would like to say I have good experience of Windows and it is because of this I am finding some of these Mac concepts difficult rather than them being intuitive. > > Here goes then, > > 1. I think as a rule of thumb quic nav is mainly used for navagating the web but not otherwise. Is this correct? > 2. While I know that single key navagation can be used with the tab key, I cannot work out when I need to tab and when I need to vo right arrow. > 3. Interacting and uninteracting, I just don't know when and when not to do this. When someone has guided me they have said to interact and now uninteract, left to my own devices I cannot make a decision as to when to interact and when not to. > > Sorry if these are silly questions but I think once I have clarification on these I will have moved forward quite a pace with my Mac. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. 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