On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Rich Caloggero wrote:
if I'm on a web page which is a 3-column newspaper like
layout (nav across the top and down the left side, main page
content in the
middle, and more navigation down the right side), how would this be
without
some sort of "modification". Imagine using this kind of site with
the Jaws
cursor (essentially the mouse cursor). This is basically what
VoiceOver
gives you right now in a browser, and in fact what Jaws gave you
before
version 4 or so.
Stop right there. *smile* That is not at all what VO gives you. A
site such as the one you described would be quite easy to navigate
with VO. When in the main content part of the page, using the up and
down arrows with the VO keys will move you within that column. You
do not hear the content from the left and right columns at this
point. This preserves the page layout and also lets you hear only
what you need to. Reading a web site like this is, in some cases,
actually easier with VO. It's a matter of what you're used to. The
only time you might run into trouble is if you are exclusively
navigating with left and right arrow keys. But you shouldn't be
doing that in any case.
