another way to mittigate content opening automatically is to hold option
when you enter on whatever element will trigger your download. This
overrides whatever Safari was planning to do and forces a download. Of
course, it'll only work on content that the folks have allowed to be
downloaded at the site end of the equation, but its handy to know all the
same.
Hope that helps someone
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: downloading files on web pges
it depends onwhat you are downloading. Some sites do not allow
downloading
at all, some content will open and display or play automatically in their
respective applications and even control clicking because of the first
issue
raised here cannot be downloaded. The issue of content opening when
clicked
can be somewhat mittigated by setting saffari in prefs not to open
downloaded files. Having said all this and all things being equal, you
just
either vo space on a link to a file you want to download if you are
traveling using vo with arrows, or tab to the link and press enter. The
downloads window appears and the download begins, to monitor the download,
use vo to navigate to the "list, interact with it using vo-shift-down
arrow,
and you will see using vo with arrows the file name and other info about
it
on a "line. interact with this and you can see the progress and the time
remaining. If the download happens quickly, you will not see the process.
In the download window, there is a "clear" button, press this button to
clear the list when the download terminates so that the next time you
download something, you won't have a complicated view to plow through.
press command-w to close the window and you are taken back to the page you
cane from. Alternatively, while the download is in progress, if you want
to
start another, you can press command-accent to move back to the page or
press vo-f2 twice quickly and pick the page from the window list that
appears and press enter.
tip: if you know what you are looking for and it is infact a link and not
a
button, you can press vo-u to obtain a list of links, type a unique set of
characters to the string or at least something that gets you a short list
or
just up or down arrow through the list which is in tab order till you
arrive
at the link you want, hit space on it and use vo with down arrow to be
certain you are positioned on it. if that does not happen once, use vo+up
arrow and you should be there and able to click it if it is clickable see
notes above. You can also use the item chooser to do this, vowithi will
bring up the item chooser, type as before with the links list and follow
the
same instructions from there.
I hope putting this on the list helps someone and also if there is
anything
rong with my missive, it will be corrected.
Fly nice!
Mac is more like windows than it seems in some respects.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jed Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:08 AM
Subject: downloading files on web pges
Hey guys,
Can someone email me off list, to go over downloading stuff off web
pages?
In other words, when you click on a download link, how should i do it?
What's the way to do a click, a right mouse click that is?
Thanks,
Jed
