Oh good idea. I don't' normally use activities but I might take advantage on sites like our college website. where things behave badly most of the time
thanks for the tip On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > Now I remember this. In voiceover utility, select the verbosity category and > then select the announcements tab. Uncheck the checkbox for "Speak header > when navigating across a table row. Now dealing with the list of books is > musch easier. Find the column with the names of your books, navigate down the > table until you reach the book you want, then navigate right for the download > links. > > I've seen a few sites with tables that are formatted in such a way as to > produce weird behavior with this setting on. Most annoying are some tables on > wikipedia. Most of the time, I want the setting on, but some sites need it > off. In the activities category of Voiceover utility, I made a copy of my > normal web browsing activity and named it Web with bad tables. Since it was a > copy, it already had the settings I like to use on web sites. In adition, I > turned off the speaking of table headers. Now, when I find a site that has > one of these, I just press command option X and choose the appropriate > activity. > > Hope this helps. > > Justin > > On Jul 27, 2012, at 4:40 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> Hi again group >> >> I've just tried the Take Control website again and noticed something >> extremely odd. If I try to navigate the site using VoiceOver, I just keep >> hearing: >> "|Click the PDF, ePub or Mobi download link in the free downloads column" >> as I move but, if I use the tab key to move between link elements, I get the >> download links. The problem with doing it this way is that you have no idea >> of what book yore about to download, so it's lucky dip. I've tried this in >> DOM and groups mode, with Live Regions turned on and off, same results each >> time. >> >> Gordon >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
