Hello Jeff and Simon,
To jump to the top of a web page, press Control-Option-Shift-Home
(Home on a laptop is FN-Left arrow);
To jump to bottom of webpage, press Control-Option-Shift-End (End on a
laptop is FN-Right arrow).
To read the whole webpage, position yourself where VO says "HTML
Content", press Command-a then use the Start Speaking Text command.
To find the Start Speaking Text command, go to the menus (VO-m), go
right once, go down once, press s for Services, go right once and
press sp for Speech, go right again and press Return.
You can set a shortcut for Start Speaking Text. Pressing Control will
stop speech but you can't restart it by pressing Control again in this
case.
Cheers,
Anne
On Jul 10, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
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.
