Hi list, I just wanted to agree with Anne. Web rotor is the thing I use most and love it! I made the switch to Mac in June of this year and found that while I run into some problems which are annoying and some times frustrating, VO and safari have been easier for me than the years of window screen readers. A major problem was on certain newspaper or news sites, pressing comman+ VO+ h would not take me to the next heading. Instead I'd get a message, "safari is busy" which would last some times as long as two minutes. I installed snow leopard ten days ago and now I don't have that issue at all. I have other minor annoying ones, but not that.
I started using dos in 1993 and was introduced to windows in 1996. I toyed with it but much prefered dos until I was forced to make the full time switch to windows in 2000. I made the cold turkey switch to Mac this year and just recently read that a major obstacles for switchers from windows to Mac is the tab key usage. Yet, all those years of using windows, I actually never used the tab key to move around a site. I guess I never even realized I could have until read NFB's article review on VO. BTW, thank you to NFB. Their review and response to the firestorm post VO review was one of the final straws which helped me decide Mac was the way to go!! Israel Antonio Sexy Isra On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Donna, > > There are several commands that make web-browsing easier on the Mac. > > First, you have the Web Rotor (VO-U), which you can use to look at > headers, links, auto web spots, and so on. I use the Headers menu when > reading articles from New SCientist. I go to the Headers menu and type > "1" which takes me directly to the start of the article. I press VO- > Space to go to that header, then VO-A to read the whole article. > > You then have the Item Chooser (VO-I). This is very useful if you know > some of the text you're looking for. Just type a few letters and the > number of items in the menu is reduced drastically to those containing > the letters you've entered. Once again, VO-Space will put you in the > right field. > > Then you can set a short-cut to switch between DOM and Groups mode. > For normal purposes, I prefer Groups mode, but for reading articles, > DOM works much better as it reads all links where they appear in the > text, whereas Groups mode puts all the links within one group at the > end of that group which often adds up to complete nonsense. > > You then have all the other navigation features such as jumping from > header to header, visited link to visited link, etc. > > The habit that all previous Windows users have to break is that of > tabbing around all the time. When you first start using VO, you should > forget that the Tab key exists and learn to live without it. Once > you're familiar with the Mac and VO, tabbing can be very useful, but > at the beginning, it's a great way of getting nowhere! > > I've never been a Windows user, so I'm no good at answering questions > that relate to Windows, but I've been using Macs for around 13 years > (I used OutSpoken before VoiceOver came out). I'm a translator, so I > have to use the Internet for research all the time and I find it very > quick and easy. I have no sight at all, so I'm not cheating by looking > at the screen! > > I hope this brief explanation is of use to you. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
