What you are describing is what I found most frustrating when I made the switch to the Mac. Thankfully, it became a jillion times easier, at least on well-written Web sites, once I upgraded to Snow Leopard. (I recognize that that is not an option for you at present on the computer you are using.) The Web Item Rotor under SL allows you to zip to a heading in a flash. Once you determine how a site is set up, you can generally get to the top of the piece you are trying to read quite easily and then just do a VO-a to read from there. I use this all the time on news sites I visit -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal -- with ease; I suspect CNN and others are set up to make use of heading similarly. Until SL, however, the item chooser can be yourfriend. Especially if you are looking for the top of a piece with a bbyline: Just pop up the item chooser -- VO-i -- type "by" and you'll likely be just a line or two below the headline. I cannot recall if VO-a will then work, but you should give it a try. -- Howard
On Oct 11, 2:29 am, "Kevin Gibbs" <[email protected]> wrote: > guys, > I'm cruising around on my wife's Mac, an original Power PC Powerbook. > this runs Leopard, not SL. When I choose a link with VO Space bar, I always > get sent to the top of the new page and have to VO right arrow several times > to get to the body of the article I wish to read. In addition, I can't > simply execute a command to read the entire article in one pass. the best I > can do is get the article to read one paragraph at a time using the VO right > arrow. VO A, VO P, VO S, all seem to do the same thing. Also, when I am > reading, if there's a link in the paragraph, Voiceover will stop and I have > to VO right arrow again to get it "over the hump" of the link and continue > reading. How can I simply get Voiceover to read an entire article without > stopping, regardless of the presence of links and other obstructions. I've > tried both Dom and Group mode in VO utility. Is there some other setting I > need to use so that when I choose a link to a story on, say, Huffington Post > or CNN, I'm sent immediately to the body of the article without having to > read through all the redundant links on the new page?I guess I'm looking for > the equivalents to the use of the letter n in JAWS to skip to html content. > Thanks, > Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
