Re: Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

2014-04-19 Thread Cara Quinn
HI Alex, Webspots do not work the same way as hotspots. Webspots are accessible by VO even when they are off-screen. However, if the element that the webspot refers to is no longer present on the page, I'm not sure the webspot would still be present. Are you saying that your webspot

Re: Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

2014-04-19 Thread Alex Hall
The first one. A forum had five responses on it, and my web spot was on the heading after the last response. Then the forum got a new response, making it six. My web spot moved to that sixth response, which is where the heading used to be. One more update and my web spot was completely gone. On

Re: Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

2014-04-18 Thread Alex Hall
I guess that makes sense, but as you said, it is a really odd approach to take for a visually impaired audience. Do Web Spots work the same way? I set one on a forum, and when a new post came in, the spot stayed put, meaning that, as the page was now longer, the spot had moved up the page. The

Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

2014-04-17 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I am working on a Safari article for new Mac users, and I thought I'd cover hotspots and web spots. Now, though, I don't know if I should. Here's what i did to try out hotspots: 1. I went to an open page in Safari, navigated to a heading partway down it, and pressed vo-shift-1. 2. I

Re: Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

2014-04-17 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Alex, I believe you may be seeing an issue where the heading you marked is no longer visible. When a hotspot moves out of the visible screen area or somehow becomes invisible, VoiceOver can no longer move to it. So no, hotspots are not broken. One just needs to understand that these are