Hello Jonathan and all: It would appear your complaint is with vo lock and not with item chooser. with vo lock enabled, there are many things you cannot do. For example, if I wanted to type this email with vo locked that would not work either because of the reality of vo being locked and pressing the letter A for example. that would produce the read all function.
SECOND, MANY APPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONS PERFORM SLOWER ON OLDER MACHINES GIVEN THAT MORE PROCESSING POWER IS NECESSARY FOR MORE RECENT APPLICATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. ITEM CHOOSER DOES WORK AND DOES DO WHAT it is advertised to do. If you wish to take advantage of it and if your machine has the capacity to take advantage of it are two completely different questions. I am not wanting to disagree or minimize your experiences. I just wanted to clarify that item chooser does work as advertised. Take good care. On Jul 18, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > 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, >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > Take good care and I wish you enough. Love Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
