Ok I can appreciate why this might be confusing. For myself when I was sighted a few months ago I always preferred tabs as it visually keeps the desktop tidy and keeps all your safari windows in one place. Plus if I was on several different websites such as Amazon or Play i could quickly compare prices between the two sites instead of having to keep moving open windows around.
As a blind user now I guess it just comes down to what you are used to and comfortable with With tabs I can quickly cycle through them with Control + TAB. But equally so with open windows you can VO+F2 and then select the window from the list. So there is no right or wrong way, I would just say for a sighted person I think most people would prefer tabs. Does this answer your question? Chris On 23 Jun 2010, at 23:24, Linda Adams wrote: > Chris and others, > > I need a simple basic explanation of the difference (in Safari) between > opening a new window with command N versus opening a new tab with > command T. > Are they used differently in some way? > > TIA, > Linda > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:17 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Have a question on selecting multiple item and navigating > by form field and text > > > In the voice utility VO+F8 you can activate sounds and this will give > you an indication when a web page has loaded. This will save you from > having to use the auto speak tor page summary read out when a web page > is loaded. > > Quick Nav is toggled on and off by pressing left and right together. > > To open a new tab, press command + T > To cycle through the open tabs select Control + Tab > > Hope this helps. > > If you want to send apple any feedback go to www.apple.com/feedback and > you can also write to accessibil...@apple.com > > Hope this helps > On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:58, Alfredo wrote: > >> Thanks for verifying my suspicion that having the page read >> automatically made me not land on an edit field automatically. This >> will help me tremendously as I am an avid internet user and do not >> need to know if a page is loaded or not. Although, it would be nice >> to have an audio feedback when the page loads, or the option to set on > >> instead of having the page be read automatically upon opening. Jumping > >> by element would be a great feature, a time saver, and I believe it is > >> needed, I will write about about this. I did not know that you could >> browse the web with such ease using quick nave, you activate quick >> nave by pressing the up arrow key in conjunction with the down arrow >> key right? Thanks for the command VO + J, to jump to the text edit >> field, I did not this existed as the starting guide has not told me or > >> did not tell me, or explained this. Even greater thanks for the >> suggestion to click command + L, then VO + right arrow, twice, to get >> to do a Google search. Do you know if this will open a new tab, or >> will it just replace the webpage I am on? Is the control >> + option +T command used in voice over or in jaws? >> Thanks, >> alfredo >> >> -- >> 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. > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.439 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2957 - Release Date: 06/23/10 > 06:36:00 > > > -- > 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.
