Esther,
I have some vision so I can see that something is happening on the
screen but can't read it. What I have noticed is that tooltips appear
from time to time and when this occurs voiceover loses focus. I don't
know if there is a way to turn tooltips off but there should be. I
have seen this in other programs as well.
Randy
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Chris,
OK, this has been unstable, and sometimes I can't simply tab between
the fields. However, when I can tab between the browser areas, I'm
getting the announcements for Album, Artist, and Album again. I've
been playing with my navigation setttings, but I can't get this
sorted. However, I was finding this more erratic in Leopard just
before the update to iTunes 8.0 and it seems to be a VoiceOver focus
issue. If you tab through to Artists and then interact with the
browser you'll be at the Album column, If you interact at any time
after your tab reaches the browser you always end up in the Album
column. I've tried changing the Navigation settings for the initial
position of the VoiceOver Cursor (first item in window or Keyboard
focused item). I've also tried turning keyboard tracking off,
restarting VoiceOver, and restarting my machine. I've played with
the various level of F4 (and F3) keys to try to move VoiceOver focus
to keyboard focus, etc.
If I go into the browser and query what's happening with my cursor
(assuming I have cursor tracking turned on), it's in the browser,
but not focused on a column (as I expect; same behavior in other
areas I tab to). As soon as I interact, it jumps to the Artist column.
As I said, I've been finding small instabilities in cursor focus
coming into Leopard before the iTunes release. Some of these are
associated with turning cursor tracking on and off, but the really
weird (and reproducible ones) came when I was using mouse keys and
stated getting messages about "zoom" being off or on, when
I hadn't had zoom active, and was turning mouse keys on and off.
This also seemed to have some interaction with sticky keys ---
another Universal Access feature I hadn't used, but tried, just to
find out how odd the messages would get.
I think this has something to do with reports that they stabilized
the VoiceOver focus behavior under zoom mode, but there are now some
odd focus instabilities that occasionallly crop up.
The only thing I can add to the odd browser behavior in iTunes is
that I was finding this to be unstable (though not quite with the
same symptoms) just before updating to iTunes 8. I could not
reliably tab to the browser fields all the time as I could in
Tiger. In some instances I had to VO-right arrow. There have been
other minor focus incidents (like having to "fiddle" around to set
the date and location on a new Mac, when this was straightforward in
Tiger), but I put that down to not having applied software update at
that point to go up to 10.5.4.
So there is something odd about focus and the browser, but I think
I've been seeing underpinnings of this before the iTunes update.
Cheers.
Esther
On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
so basicly you're saying vo twice to the browser, then from there
to get between to the browser fields like x artists, y albums,
would I vo right again to reach those, and must I interact with
each of the browser fields?
Chris.
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Subject: Re: ITunes Browser's acting really weird.
Chris,
I'm finding that tabbing navigation in iTunes and Automator works
differently in Leopard than in Tiger, so I can't simply tab
between Source table, Search Text Field, and Songs List ( or
Browser fields and Songs List). As David said, you'll have to VO-
right arrow twice from the Search text field to get to the
browser. I'm also finding that keyboard focus and VoiceOver
focus don't seem to be tracking as cleanly in Leopard 10.5.4 as
in Tiger 10.4.11.
OK guys, this is kind a strange, I'll admit. OK, let's say I
wanna do a
search for Leann Rimes in my library. OK, so, I'm in the
sources list,
not
interacting with it, just sitting on it basicly. OK, now, I
tab over,
until
I reach the search box and hear I'm at the beginning of the
insertion
point.
BTW, just to clarify, I am speaking that this happens to me
under Leopard.
In Tiger I don't see this issue, but in Leopard I do. Anyway,
ok, so I
type
Leann Rimes, then I hit tab. I then hear absolutely nothing.
if I down
arrow, I hear nothing. If I tab, I hear maybe like 3 albums,
however if I
down arrow, I now hear country. So, it's like, it's throwing
me into the
genre field of the browser. now if I tab I get say 3 albums
again. If I
down arrow, then I see the albums, but, instead a doing that, if
I shift
tab
back twice, now, I'm finally on where it says maybe 2 or 3
artists. Then if
I down arrow, I get the list of artists. I find this not only
very bazaar,
but incredibly annoying as I never really know what parta the
browser I'm in.
Cheers,
Esther
