thanks. this was very informative. I had no idea.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: safari help
The content of a web browser is internally represented as a tree of objects
known as the document object model. For example, a section of the page might
have an unordered list and that list would have list items and in a list
item would be some text and links and a link might have the URL it's going
to jump to. In Jaws and DOM mode for VO you pretty much traverse that tree
from top to bottom. The problem is that with CSS (Cascading style sheets)
the developer can take parts of that tree and shift where it appears on the
page. So a three column layout might have the content from the left column
first, then the right column and then the middle column. So if you are
navigating the DOM and want to get to the middle column you might have to
wade through all the other stuff first. In Group mode the navigation is more
geographic. You move around from location to location as it is displayed in
the browser. So in the three column example, you might navigate partway down
the left column and if you hit VO-right you end up in the middle column
partway down. It can get a bit tricky since the nearest object to the right
might really by up and to the right a bit so it can jump over things at
times. I find Group mode much easier for tables in Safari since I can just
go up and down the columns rather than having to VO-right through every
element of every row, but for some things DOM mode is better because I have
less problems accidentally skipping over something. Which one is to be your
favorite is a philosophical and usability choice only you can make.
CB
Portia wrote:
Dom can mean Document Object Model. However, there could be other meanings.
Smiles,
Portia.
Pete Nalda wrote:
On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello May,
Tabing is not the best way of navigating websites or anything else on
the Mac with VO. In SL, you can now use Quick Nav to go through
everything on a website or in a window using just one hand. You can
also have VO read the whole web page as soon as it opens. You
configure this in VoiceOver Utility under Web.
You can also set a short-cut in Keyboard Commander to toggle between
DOM and Groups mode for web browsing. You also have the Web Rotor
which gives you even more flexibility when navigating Web pages.
I've just scratched the surface of what's available to you, but you
can find out more useful commands by pressing VO-H twice and examining
the various commands menus.
Tabbing around is a good way to miss a great deal of information.
Cheers,
Anne
Anne and Others,
What Does DOM actually mean, I sort of understand the definition of
groups mode don't know what they mean by DOM. TIA.
Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates)
Pete Nalda
http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda
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