My main complaint with item chooser is that it does not work properly if VO lock is enabled. The find command accespts letter keys as letters when in VO-lock while the item chooser just beeps and won't even let you turn off vo-lock. Since I am running on a 5 year old Macintosh this is a problem. Item chooser will take 15-20 seconds on a long web page.
Jon On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > > VoiceOver has a function called "Item Chooser" which is available > anywhere, not just on the web. When you press it, it brings up a > sort of menu of everything being displayed in the window. If you > type a few letters in, the menu shrinks to only include items which > contain the letters you typed. It is actually much nicer than a > traditional find command, as you are describing, and a whole lot > more powerful. :) > > HTH. > > > Josh de Lioncourt > …my other mail provider is an owl… > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt > Music: http://stage19music.com > Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com > Blog: http://lioncourtsmusings.blogspot.com > GoodReads: http://goodreads.com/Lioncourt > > On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:30 PM, a radix wrote: > >> Hi everyone, Currently on windows I use hal 7.0 and webformator for >> surfing the web. Webformator displays the webpage in a sort of text- >> file which allows you to just browse it, i mean go through it all >> with arrow up/down and tab to go to link/link. You can use (and >> that is the one great feature I love about webformator) control-f >> to search for specefic text in a webpage. Since it is a text file >> (sort off, you can stiull click on links) it does not restrict you >> to link but will also instantly point you to a word in the actual >> body of the webpage, i often visit forums etc that I know quite >> well and find this feature very useful because it means I can >> navigate them quickly and efficiently. Also since, once again its a >> text file I can search for for example combobox in the control-f >> dialog and it will bring me to the first of these. I wonder if >> anything like this exists in safari-voiceover? I am actually hoping >> that transition will be easier for me becaus eI hav emostly been >> using a kin dof dumb screenreader, just using the windows commands >> and not many screenreader ocmmands at all so I am hoping I will be >> able to adapt quickly. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
