OK, first of all:
When you first open Safari, you then immediately typed the U R L to a web
site. There's part of your issue.
You need to first always always always! hit command+L first to focus
yourself to the address bar. Then! type the address and hit return.
Second off, do you have Voiceover set to automatically interact with html
areas?
Let's take a quick look. Go into your voiceover utility with vo+F8.
Remember you may need to do fn+vo+F8, depending on your setup.
Vo+right arrow over to the categories table and then hit the letter W.
Don't worry, you don't even need to interact first. As long as you're
actually on the table itself, you should be then able to hit W to jump to
the web category.
OK, vo+right arrow two times, and you should hear page loading tab. If it
isn't already selected, go head and hit vo+space on it to do so.
OK, now vo+right arrow 4 times. You should hear a checkbox to move the
voiceover cursor when loaded. You need to be absolutely certain that this
box is indeed checked. If it's not, hit vo+space to check it.
OK, that should help but don't close the Vo Utility just quite yet. I wanna
lookat one more thing, just? in case.
go back up to the top of the window, and go to the categories table. I'm
gonna assume that from this point forward you are using either Lion, or
Mountain Lion. If you're on anything earlier, I E, Snow Leopard, Leopard,
or Tiger, God forbid!... then you're not gonna have this option, so in that
case, just hit command+W. You're done, otherwise though keep on following my
directions.
In the category list, again, make sure you're focused on it. You again do
not need to interact, just be sure you're on it first. Then, hit the letter
A, as in activities.
Once here vo+right arrow until you get to the activities table. Again, no
need to interact here. Just down arrow and if anything is in that table,
see if you have an activity for Safari. If not, then you're good to go.
Just hit command+W. If you do however, then read on.
So, if you're still reading, then that tells me, you actually did have a
Safari activity. Otherwise I'm expecting you read no further.
So, make sure Safari is selected in the table.
Vo+right arrow 12 times. You should get to a check box that says Web. Is
it checked? If not, then you're good to go. Just hit command+W. If it is!
checked however, then keep reading.
If checked then there should be a set button just to the right of the
checkbox. Vo+Space on it.
Now again, locate the page loading tab and select it, then make sure the box
to automatically move the Voiceover cursor is checked. Then go down to the
very bottom of the screen, and vo+Space on the OK button. Then, finally
command+W to close the Voiceover Utility.
Now, If Safari was running, command+Tab to it, if needed, then hit command+Q
to quit it. Now, reopen it. I know that sounds a little silly. Why quit
it then reopen it, but trust me. You're right, it's probably not necessary
to do, but I wanna cover all of our grounds just in case.
OK, now hold it! Don't do anything! Don't start typing a U R L. First,
hit command+L.
Now, and only! now, type in your
hairyfox.com
Then hit return.
Wait a sec, and let the page load.
Now! vo around, and see what you get.
Did that work?
Another thing, too, you may want to do, is, In Safari itself, hit
command+Comma, to bring up the preferences, then find your toolbar and
interact with it. Vo+Space on general, then stop interacting with the
toolbar. OK, in here, we want to look for new tabs open with, and there
should be a pop up menu. Make sure that is not set to blank or untitled or
what not. You want that on home page. Then vo+right a few times and you
should hear home page then again takes you to a text box. In here, just
type something like: google.com
This way, every time a new tab opens it doesn't just take you to a blank nul
page. In theory, having a blank page really shouldn't effect anything. I'm
not saying that it messes things up having it that way, as actually, it
doesn't, but who knows. Again, I'm only trying to rule out every
possibility I can think of.
OK so once this all's done, let's again hit command+W to close the
preferences, then hit command+Q to quit Safari.
OK, now again, reopen it, and see if it landed you in the html area
automatically for your home page, which is google in the above example.
If that doesn't work, I do have another idea we can try, although it's a bit
overkill most likely, so I'd rather not go that route until I first know if
this fixed things, as I'll bet my money on it, that if you set it all up the
way I just talked you through doing, it should! ok, key word, should! work.
Give me a little more info: what version of OSX are you running? What type
Mac is this you're using?
Chris.
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