Hi, Basically, yup. Because Chrome is just a browser within the MacOS, you can’t have ChromeVox take over the reading of the MacOS menus and dialogs. Any dialogs that are presented as part of the Chrome browser experience are read by ChromeVox, but not MacOS stuff.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 10, 2015, at 18:21, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: ahem Professor? I wish to be very sure I understand this. In order to use chrome successfully, you must combine both voiceover and chrome's screen reader? It takes both of them for something close to a fully functional experience? Karen On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Although I totally agree with Karen’s comment, in the meantime, ChromeVox > should be usable for you. The learning curve for basic navigation is not > huge and does seem to handle some sites, especially Googly ones, quite > nicely. I tend to leave VO on and just press control to quiet it when it > tries to babble at the same time as ChromeVox. You do need it though to read > any MacOS menus or dialogs that appear. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 10, 2015, at 15:26, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks to TD Bank's hatred of Safari, and their assumption that everyone will > just use Chrome anyway (no seriously, the rep actually said that), I have to > use Chrome to access my banking site. The problem is that Chrome and > VoiceOver seem to have a rather rocky relationship. VO reads things, but > can't navigate by heading, table, etc. it also reads every link and button as > "collapsed", which makes no sense. > > I could deal with all that, but here's the big problem: I'm randomly dumped > out of the webpage content altogether, which makes this browser very > difficult to use at best. I can't find where my account information is, I > can't get to it by heading, and as I vo-arrow through the page, I could, at > any time, find myself out of the page completely and moving around the Chrome > window. > > Do I need to use Chromevox and disable vO? If so, please tell me Chromevox is > easy to learn and use. How would I enable it, and will it be good enough to > let me read account history and the like on this site? > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
