That's correct functionality, enter is the only thing that launches the find. Dunno about sub pages.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Rimpau" <[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 7:09 AM Subject: Re: getting the voice over search to work on youtube Hi all, try going to http://www.youtube.com/thesingingma and see if the vo f search works, and I found that it didn't, but even more disturbing is, that it only seems to work on home pages, if you go to a sub page of a home page, it won't work, and when I would try and put a search term in there, when I would press num pad enter, it would put an enter icon, to the right of the text, the same thing with tab, it would say tab, tab, tab, if I tabbed 3 times, so there has to be a way to make the search feature work on all pages. On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:01:49 -0800, 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 Marty
