Hi Anne, Thanks for these tips. I do use the web rotor and the item chooser, and I do find that they often help. I have also set a keypad commander shortcut to switch between dom and groups mode--thanks, Mike Arrigo, I stole that idea from your podcast. All these things do help, bu I still find browsing faster in windows, especially if I'm looking for one specific thing, and that thing happens to be text rather than a link. I'm not giving up yet, though. :) Like I said, because of my current work demands, I'll be running both OSes for a while anyway, so I'll just keep plugging away at the Mac and see how things evolve. Take care, Donna
On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:30 PM, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
