That is a very good answer! I am totally blind and personally like tabs better.
it just seems smoother and faster to me than bringing up window chooser.
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On Jun 23, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
> 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-----
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>> [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
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