vo-f works on what is visible on the screen as far as I know and have heard on this very list. Apple doesn't do anything for the sake of windows users but it does and has been doing some things to provide better operablility wiht windows simply because a lot of macs are in windows environments.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Babcock, Michael Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:23 AM Subject: Re: getting the voice over search to work on youtube not trying to be mean or don't want it to be mis constrewed that way but ould you give us an example of a sitey ou use ito n? I for some reason havn't been able to get it to work. thanks michael On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Geez guys, VO+f is not some item just stuffed in there for the > benefit of windows users coming to the Mac or whatever. VO+f does in > fact work and works quite well. Why it does not work with some web > pages I am not sure, but I wonder if this link you say can't be > found is possibly a picture or some other such thing. In other words > is it possible it's an alt tag? Perhaps VO can't find text being > used this way? There is a reason, but the VO find command isn't > broken, I use it quite often. > > On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote: > >> do we have an estamated release date for it? >> On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Justin Harford wrote: >> >>> Yah essentially vo i is the same function as vo f except it >>> actually works. VO f was just as far as I can tell, a failed >>> attempt to pet the windows users since ctrl f for find is >>> something they are used to. >>> >>> Forget VO f for now, use VO I. Perhaps in the next release of >>> leopard this will be fixed. Hey did you guys know that snow >>> leopard is going to not work with carbon? Means I think >>> hopefully, that developers will be forced to move to cocoa which >>> means better access for us. >>> >>> Regards >>> Justin Harford >>> >>> Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell >>> and looked awhile, pondering his voyage >>> >>> John Milton >>> Paradise Lost >>> >>> On Oct 2, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote: >>> >>>> yes vo + u is link chooser and vo + i is itom chooser, i don't >>>> know because i've never hurd that podcast, personally the vo+f >>>> has never *never* worked for me. >>>> >>>> On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Marty Rimpau wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, Mike, then why did Mike Arrigo, on his podcast, say to press >>>>> vo f, >>>>> and get his search to work? This is confusing, because he said >>>>> that vo >>>>> f was the search command, and the next occurrance of the word >>>>> was vo g, >>>>> so I'm confused, because vo u is the link chooser, not the search >>>>> command, if I remember correctly. >>>>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:22:48 -0800, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote: >>>>> >>>>> do this: >>>>> if it's a link do >>>>> vo+u then type the word your looking for if it's not a link do >>>>> this >>>>> vo+i then type in the word your looking for. >>>>> hth >>>>> mike >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Marty Rimpau wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, I went to a youtube channel, and using vo f, I put in >>>>>> the word >>>>>> rainbow, since I know that a link exists on that channel with >>>>>> that >>>>>> word >>>>>> in it, but I couldn't get the voice over search to find it, even >>>>>> when I >>>>>> pressed enter, it just stayed at the top of the page, yet, on >>>>>> my 98 se >>>>>> machine, I can go to this same channel with window-eyes, and >>>>>> use its' >>>>>> find option, and it always finds what I want if it is there, >>>>>> so, how >>>>>> does one get the voice over cursor to work on a particular >>>>>> site, when >>>>>> it works with other screen readers? Thanks in advance. >>>>>> >>>>>> Marty >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> thanks for reading >>>>> Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net >>>>> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Marty >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> thanks for reading >>>> Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net >>>> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> thanks for reading >> Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net >> msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy >> >> > > Scott Howell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > thanks for reading Systems administrator and owner of http://gwhosting.net msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: http://twitter.com/creepyblindy
