Rafael Bejarano wrote:
What is the grouping option supposed to do? I wasn't sure how to use it
once I enabled it, so I disabled it again.
Rafael Bejarano
Here's what the Getting Started with VoiceOver manual says (page 53):
"The VoiceOver cursor typically moves linearly across webpages, from
upper left to lower right. Depending on how a webpage was designed, the
VoiceOver cursor may seem to move randomly when you navigate in this
way. VoiceOver provides some options for improving the navigation
experience. 'Group items in web pages' organizes a webpage into related
groups of information. For example, all the song titles in a list of hot
tunes, or an image with an excerpt of a news article. When you choose
this option, VoiceOver identifies these as a group. You can skim quickly
through groups until you hear one that interests you. Each group of
information is treated as a content area, so you use the VoiceOver
command Control-Option-Shift-Down Arrow to interact with the contents."
Moving linearly across webpages is rarely an optimal mode of navigation,
since the various bits of content on a webpage is often arranged in a
grid-like layout of boxes, which might be placed side-by-side as well as
one beneath another. What you want to do, ideally, is read line-by-line
within a particular box, then move onto the next box. One of the big
problems with the VoiceOver/WebKit combination is that the VoiceOver
cursor often seems to skip between different boxes so that text is
skipped or read out of order. My impression is the 'Group items in web
pages' option minimizes this problem somewhat, at least in Tiger with
Safari 2.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
