Hm, interesting. I did some pretty broad testing this morning. It
seems to me that you can *never* VO key to type = "password", no
exceptions. I tried coding a page directly as well - trying all sorts
of different possibilities - and I found no way around this
limitation. If the password field is the only field on the page the
password field may have the focus as soon as the page loads - but you
still can't navigate to the password field with VO keys. So that
doesn't count as an exception. I'd be inclined to put this one in the
design limitation category (this is not a bug - it's one of those
"that's how it works" kind of things). If there are truly exceptions
to the above, we'd probably want to figure out what those are before
forwarding this on to Apple. Some source code would do the trick...if
anyone who has found an exception wouldn't mind posting.
Joe
On Feb 28, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Yes, and interestingly enough, I filled out a form last night that
had several secure entry fields. Two of them were findable via vo
keys, but one of them needed to be tabbed to. I didn't check the
source code of the page to see why this was, but it did prove your
point, and puzzled me greatly. Why such inconsistent behavior? Who
knows. Perhaps apple will do something about it in the next
upgrade, or perhaps someone needs to report it as a bug, though it
would be better if we could find publically available examples of
such, so we could point apple to these sites for testing. The site
I was on isn't a generally accessible one, so it unfortunately
can't be used for testing. Then again, there's a lot of those when
applying for student loans. *grumble*
On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:42 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
and as with every rule, there are some pass word fields which are
findable such as that on my bank site.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Feb 27, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Yes, that is exactly what I was talking about.. With a password
entry field, vo will not find it unless you tab to it. Don't know
why it's setup this way, but that's how it works. Kind of
confusing for new users, but workable once you know about it.
On Feb 27, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Maybe I miss the point here, but I can tab to fields on sites
that are considered secure. For example, I log into my credit
union site and can find the name and password field. Is this what
you are referring too?
Scott
On Feb 27, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Nothing to be done about the card verification code. Since it's
a secure entry field, vo won't see it w/o tabbing to it. This
same problem exists with any site where passwords or any other
secure information is required to be entered. I don't know why
this is, but vo has been like this since I started using it back
in August. The other things could use some work though. :)
