Hello. Whenever you want to find some text on a web page, you can press control+option+f to open the Voiceover find dialog. Then type what you want to find and press enter.
On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
