If she is still running 10.5, it's definitely worth the upgrade to 10.6, that will solve the problem. On Oct 2, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Justin Ekis wrote:
> Hi Genny, > > I don't know what might be different in OSX10.5, but here are some things you > can try. This is all totally guesswork though. > > I haven't seen this on google, but I have experienced other situations where > things that should have been clickable were not, and this trick helps > sometimes. While focused on the heading, try interacting with it. Since the > link element is inside the header element, this older voiceover may need to > interact with the heading to see it. > > If that does not work, you could try running a nightly build of webkit. This > will include the newer accessibility fixes that made it into the version of > safari that came with OSX 10.6 and then some. Since it's a development > version, there's always a chance of instability but the recent builds work > fine for me. If it's a safari problem, this will solve it. If it's something > wrong with the older voiceover itself then it won't help. > > The address for the nightly webkit builds is http://nightly.webkit.org > > Hope you get this working. > > Justin > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Jenny Wood wrote: > > Thanks for the response. While I am familiar with how to activate a link, > the problem appears to be that Safari simply doesn't seem to recognize the > area I need to activate as a link. Therefore, using VO+space does nothing. I > don't know, seeing as how not many people are familiar with this particular > issue, I am beginning to wonder if it could have anything to do with the > version of OS I am running. This machine has OS 10.56, which is certainly > not the latest and greatest. > > Jenny > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
