Hi, I see this behaviour often when trying to print from a link to print from a site. There is a recipe site that my wife often asks me to print a recipe from, this is where I see this. Max
On 12 Dec 2013, at 2:23 am, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > Just reporting on some interesting behaviour I just observed which might help > some people with clickable text/AJAX menus. > > I was using a website and the main menu had apparently recently been updated. > In Safari version 6.0.5 on Mountain Lion, VoiceOver reported each item as > clickable. I tried doing a VO-space on an item, but it didn't work. I tried > routing the mouse and doing VO-shift-space as well as a physical click on the > TrackPad with TrackPad commander turned off, but neither of these worked > either. I then switched to Google Chrome and tried the same methods, but none > of them worked in Chrome either. > > The interesting thing is I tried routing the mouse to the text, and then > turning VoiceOver off with command-F5 and then physically clicking the > TrackPad. This, strangely, worked. It opened an AJAX style submenu with > ordinary links I could click on. I tried this method several times and it > worked. I only tried it in Google Chrome, however. > > So, moral of the story is if you find some clickable text or an AJAX style > menu that you can't seem to activate, try routing the mouse, turning > VoiceOver off and physically clicking the TrackPad. Not sure why there would > be any difference with VoiceOver turned on and QuickNav turned off compared > with having VoiceOver turned off, but it was clearly different. > > Cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
