searching for specefic text on a webpage

2009-07-17 Thread a radix
Hi everyone, Currently on windows I use hal 7.0 and webformator for surfing the web. Webformator displays the webpage in a sort of text-file which allows you to just browse it, i mean go through it all with arrow up/down and tab to go to link/link. You can use (and that is the one great feature

Re: searching for specefic text on a webpage

2009-07-17 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
VoiceOver has a function called "Item Chooser" which is available anywhere, not just on the web. When you press it, it brings up a sort of menu of everything being displayed in the window. If you type a few letters in, the menu shrinks to only include items which contain the letters you ty

Re: searching for specefic text on a webpage

2009-07-18 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
My main complaint with item chooser is that it does not work properly if VO lock is enabled. The find command accespts letter keys as letters when in VO-lock while the item chooser just beeps and won't even let you turn off vo-lock. Since I am running on a 5 year old Macintosh this is a pr

Re: searching for specefic text on a webpage

2009-07-18 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Jonathan and all: It would appear your complaint is with vo lock and not with item chooser. with vo lock enabled, there are many things you cannot do. For example, if I wanted to type this email with vo locked that would not work either because of the reality of vo being locked and pre