Hi Brandon and all: Another thing you can do is, if it is the third button from the top of the page, type the slash key on the keyboard to get you into control search mode, then type the number 3 and then the letter b. That should take you directly to that button. Kevin Huber On 2/16/14, Rod Hutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > Are you not able to use the letter B key, which moves to the next > (Shift-B to the previous) button? If you can, then you could use > surronding text to orient yourself to the silent button. If you were on > the button, you could just press Space to activate it. If that didn't > work, you could use Numpad Insert-Plus to route the mouse to the button > and then Numpad Slash to left-click it. > > hth, > > Rod > > On 2/16/14 4:44 AM, Brandon Miller wrote: >> Hello everyone, I've got what I hope is a relatively simple question >> for any of you who are proficient at working with the Window-eyes >> Hotspot app. Can you use it to mark and then later return to a >> graphical element on a webpage? Here's what I'd like to be able to do. >> There's a button used to post comments on this wall portion of a >> website that I'm a member of. Unfortunately, it is not possible to tab >> to this button, nor is it possible to use Window-eyes' mouse hotkeys >> in any sort of readily apparent manner to get at it. Fortunately, my >> wife is sighted, so because of her working with me I know that it is >> of course in actuality indeed possible to get the mouse pointer to the >> button I need to be able to click using the mouse up, down, left and >> right hotkeys. However, even when the button is reached, Window-eyes >> just announces something that is for all intense and purposes >> practically meaningless, like the X-Y coordinates of the button, or >> some other type of pointer reference location that sounds to me like >> gobbledygook. The actual button itself visually says "post comment"! >> Haha, so anyway, I got to thinking, well, ok, I'll just try setting up >> a Window-eyes hotspot there. Well, sadly, even when I stay on the site >> and simply navigate to a different place on the page, and then try to >> use the hotspot, it doesn't work. Dad gum it, thoughts? Can the >> Hotspot app only be used on textual elements? If so, can any of you >> think of any other solutions I could try? The virtualView app perhaps? >> Well, on second thought, the thing is, I'm trying to use Window-eyes >> to activate a graphical button that cannot independently be accessibly >> focused upon using the tab, arrow keys, or any mouse hotkeys that I >> know of save the ones I've already mentioned. Thoughts? The sites' >> support team are both cordial and pretty responsive, even if clueless >> about assistive technology. If there's something I could ask them to >> change about the HTML code itself to make this button able to be given >> focus using the keyboard, do any of you know what that would be >> technically referred to as? >> >> Respectfully submitted, >> >> Brandon Dean Miller > > > 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] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. 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] so the entire list will receive it.
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