Hi Mary, Have you tried cutting out a bunch of those intensive keys by pressing control option semicolon to lock the vo keys? This is a minor inconvenience but usefull for prolonged periods of browsing.
Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-02-11, at 7:23 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Scott, > I'm not Linda, but I had to respond to your note to her re the differences > between moving around on a page among elements with Window Eyes or Jaws and > Voice Over. You said that you didn't see much difference between pressing h > by itself or pressing 3 additional keys in addition to h to move among > headers. And you say this is easily done with one hand? You must have amazing > hands. I can no way do that. I've been touch typing for decades. It gets even > more interesting when you add the shift into the mix to go up the page in > reverse order. Doable? yes? As easy as pressing one key? Not by a long shot. > Are there other benefits, such as not having to go in and out of forms mode? > for sure. The added functionality for VO on the web in Snow Leopard is one of > the main reasons I decided to try a Mac. I really appreciate the numpad > commander, although learning it was not as intuitive as learning mnemonics on > the regular keyboard. In no way is the rotor as efficient for me as having > that array of single letter keystrokes that let me move among various web > elements at will. Another thing I hope can be implemented in the future is a > means of letting focus return to where it was when you return back to a > previously visited page. That's a big time saver with the Windows screen > readers, although it doesn't always work. Its nonexistent with vo. I like > the fact that pages seem to load faster with Safari than they do with IE and > a screen reader. Over all, for me, the Windows experience is still more > efficient. But there are pluses with the Mac, and I'm hoping it will keep > improving. Group mode is something I have tried and dropped. I just never > found a page where it seemed to offer any advantage, since I don't really > care how the page is laid out. I want info and where it is on the page just > doesn't seem very important to me, so long as I can get to it efficiently. > Maybe I don't go to the right sites where group mode's benefits are displayed > to best advantage. > > Mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
