Dear Jeff,
The basic tutorial on getting started with voiceover which you can
find on the apple accessibility website has a section on using Safari
with a variety of applications, including Safari. I think the URL is:
www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
Also, I normally set web navigation at the Voiceover utility to
"groupnavigation" to avoid missing some links as you have already
experienced. You can interact with each group within which there may
be links or buttons to press. To interact with a group use the
standard key combination vo+shift+down arrow and +up arrow to stop
interacting in order to move forward. I fail to remember a keystroke
comination for reading the entire web page as I rarely do it but there
exists one and either it will be within the getting started file or
otherp people on the list will be able to help. I have never found a
satisfactory key combination to jump to the top or bottom of web page.
There is a jump-to key combination which is vo+shift+j and then vo
+arrow keys to follow is supposed to take you to the right or left
edge of the line you are on but top or bottom of page? I don't know. I
tried various combinations and nothing has worked after jump-to command.
I hope this helps a little. Ah, don't forget the vo+u which lists
links on the webpage from which you can choose one and press enter and
then vo+spacebar to activate it. Once in the list, if you know what
link you want, you can start typing its name and you will get there
quickly. there is also a useful vo+i command which lists all the
elements on the page and again you can either arrow down the list or
start typing the name to get there and then press enter.
Good luck.
Simon
On 10 Jul 2008, at 01:58, Jeff Harrington wrote:
I am very new to using VoiceOver especially with Safari. I have a
PC background and am wondering if there are any tutorials that I
could listen too showing how VoiceOver works with Safari.
Specifically how do you jump to the top/bottom of a web page. is
there a way to get VoiceOver to read the entire web page
automatically?, and is there a way to move manually line by line
through the entire web page? I can move using VO Commands, but it
does not seem to be able to navigate from the top of the web page to
the bottom of the web page. It seems to get hung up or VoiceOver
skips items.
Any help appreciated.
I have set VoiceOver to use DOM navigation & have set Safari to use
Tab Browsing.
