This is one of the most useful features WE has for working with Web pages. I use it extensively with my bank's website and it saves me a great deal of time. I can pay bills in less than 20 minutes each month and the place mark feature is largely responsible for making it possible for me to navigate through the site so rapidly.
If you think ahead, you can map out the exact number of lines you need WE to read for any place marker. I've set most to read only one line -- that's the line of the link I need. But for some tasks, like the section of the page that verifies I've made a transaction, I have Window Eyes autoread multiple lines. In this case, 15 lines. In doing so, it reads the transaction date, amount, payee and effective date. We can always go to the same line on the page, go to the line number and specified text, or use line number and text Search. It's never been completely clear to me what the difference between the second and third option is, but I have better results with the third, so use it almost always. I also tend to designate place markers for the domain instead of just the page. That too seems to work better -- as long as I don't have too many place markers for one website. Richard Petty ILRU - Independent Living Research Utilization [email protected] (E-Mail) ________________________________ From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 9:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Placemarkers Dave, Yes, I just had a look, and in the "Window-Eyes Features" section, there's "working with the internet", and in this chapter is a topic for "place markers". I did a quick experiment and found j and k move you forward and backward through the list of whatever placemarkers you've defined for that page, and control-shift-k opens a dialog which allows you to define your current location as a place marker. I did this on the google search page so that I can find the beginning of the search results and skip over the add results, and it seemed to work great. Hth, Chip ________________________________ From: Dave Bahr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:19 AM To: gw-info Subject: Re: Placemarkers I'll admit, sorry eric I don't have a response to your question, but I'll admit I've not fooled around with place markers because I don't know how they work and haven't had time to read the manual. Is there a tutorial on these nifty things? Dave c. bahr On 10/23/2011 12:47 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Have they refined this so that you can set a place marker with a > keypress and return there with a keypress? I learned the voiceover > version first and when I went to show the window-eyes version to a 9 > year old client a dialog box of options, all of which make sense to > me but few of which I felt like explaining to a little kid who just > wanted to save her place in the book she was reading, rendered the > process a bit in practical. Voiceover placemarkers are managed with > four keypresses. One to set, one to remove, and one each to jump > back and fourth through all placemarkers on a page. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for > demo. Mac OS Lion When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at > accessibility Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, > Visit: > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2011-10-23, at 1:35 PM, Chip Orange wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> thanks for remind me about the place markers. I have to say, I >> keep finding features of WE that I want to say the same words on >> the list; something like "this is great, if you others don't know >> about this, or aren't using it, you should try it!" >> >> On web pages, for me, it's use of the "x" command to skip all the >> links at the top and find the real text of the page. Also, it's >> the dialog which lets you see a list of links and activate the >> desired one, so you don't even have to try and navigate to it. >> >> Chip >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Pietruk >> [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:44 >> AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Subject: >> Placemarkers >> >> In keeping multiple pcs up-to-date with the same placemarkers for >> web pages or sites, are there any other files, in addition to >> weappset.ini that need to be copied over? I looked at the time >> stamps of files under /users/default and that appears the only one >> with an updated time stamp when a placemarker is added or >> modified? >> >> Incidentally, for those reading this msg who haven't played around >> with placemarkers since its introduction in WE7.0, you are missing >> a lot in convenience and flexibility in not using this tool. >> >> >> >> >> >> - "The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of >> prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of >> misery." Winston Churchill >> >> >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and >> your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending >> your message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> so >> the entire list will receive it. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. 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