Re: navigating pop up menus with first letter?
Hi Edward, Thanks. I was ever so sure that I had, in fact, turned qn off prior to attempting to use first letter nav in the pop up menu. But I must not have, because I just did it again, after seeing your note, and it worked as it should on the amazon site. I do think it would be nice if the qn first letter nag were a bit more intelligent than it is. That is, seems to me there ought to be a way for the folks at Apple to program in to this feature some means of telling that it is engaged in some kind of interaction, and the first letter nav ought to just shut off. It truly diminishes the utility of this great feature when you have to keep turning it off and on and doing extra interaction, as is the case with edit boxes. The Windows screen readers have finally figured out a more intelligent approach to forms mode. And, as I recall, if you use a keyboard in IOS, you don't have this problem. I haven't used my bt keyboard and iPad in a while, so I may be wrong. But I don't recall having issues with first letter nag on websites under IOS. Maybe they'll beef this up in Mavericks. One may hope. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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.
Re: navigating pop up menus with first letter?
Hi Mary, Once you've activated the pop up menu, press left and right arrows together to turn quicknav off. First letter navigation should work now, I've just tried it on Amazon. Cheers, Ed On 5 Oct 2013, at 01:48, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new Mac mini with Mountain Lion. I moved from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I also still use Windows, so maybe my Windows stuff is getting in the way here. I thought I remembered that, when you activate a menu with a pop up button, those are combo boxes in Windows, you could do first letter navigation to get near the item you want. For instance, on the Amazon site, you navigate a list or menu for which department you want to search in after activating the pop up. With my new Mac, I can't, for instance, type a k to move directly to the item for the Kindle store like I can in Windows after activating the same control, which Windows sees as a combo box. I thought under SL, it was also possible to use this sort of navigation. Am I nuts? Is there a setting I am missing. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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.
navigating pop up menus with first letter?
I have a new Mac mini with Mountain Lion. I moved from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I also still use Windows, so maybe my Windows stuff is getting in the way here. I thought I remembered that, when you activate a menu with a pop up button, those are combo boxes in Windows, you could do first letter navigation to get near the item you want. For instance, on the Amazon site, you navigate a list or menu for which department you want to search in after activating the pop up. With my new Mac, I can't, for instance, type a k to move directly to the item for the Kindle store like I can in Windows after activating the same control, which Windows sees as a combo box. I thought under SL, it was also possible to use this sort of navigation. Am I nuts? Is there a setting I am missing. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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.
Re: navigating pop up menus with first letter?
Drop-down menus do have the first-letter shortcut to jump to some item in the list. Works just fine if Amazon used them. In the case of the Departments list Amazon is making their own menus out of piles of containers with some css to style it and javascript to make it interactive. Any keyboard handling is something they would have to write code to support since they are rolling their own widgets so if it's not doing this on the Mac then it sounds like Amazon is serving up a different view for Safari/Mac than for Windows and the Mac one doesn't support first-letter shortcuts. That said, I know Amazon just hired a smarty guy from Oracle (was originally with Sun) to head up accessibility so I'm expecting good things from them soon. I'll give him a few months to get his feet on the ground before I pester him with accessibility bugs. CB On 10/4/13 8:48 PM, Mary Otten wrote: I have a new Mac mini with Mountain Lion. I moved from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I also still use Windows, so maybe my Windows stuff is getting in the way here. I thought I remembered that, when you activate a menu with a pop up button, those are combo boxes in Windows, you could do first letter navigation to get near the item you want. For instance, on the Amazon site, you navigate a list or menu for which department you want to search in after activating the pop up. With my new Mac, I can't, for instance, type a k to move directly to the item for the Kindle store like I can in Windows after activating the same control, which Windows sees as a combo box. I thought under SL, it was also possible to use this sort of navigation. Am I nuts? Is there a setting I am missing. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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.
