The page I played with was mostly content which I was able to navigate around and read. Just tried a popup and was unable to figure out what was in it or what I had picked. Here is the test page I tried:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/combocode.html Inaccessible popups appears to be an old problem. Josh noted this in his blog back in 2008: http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/06/12/opera-browser-released-with-voiceover-support/ Apparently there has been no progress on this front in over a year. CB Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi Chris, > Did you ever manage to manipulate combo boxes and popup buttons with Opera? I > can't move them so i can't change styles and the like. > /Krister > > > On, at [GMT] (which was 15:10 where I live) you > wrote:: > CB> Opera is also fairly accessible. I don't use it all that often so > CB> maybe it has some snags but the little bit I played around with it > CB> I was able to navigate the web page with VO just fine. > > CB> http://www.opera.com/download/ > > CB> CB > > CB> a radix wrote: > CB> Hello, I have the fastest 15 inch macbook pro currently available and > still > CB> find safari kind of sluggish (especially with just braille). I will try > icab > CB> this weekend to see how it works. I like that it is from Europe. > CB> Greetings, Anouk, > CB> ----- Original Message ----- > CB> From: "Nicolai Svendsen" <[email protected]> > CB> To: <[email protected]> > CB> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:01 AM > CB> Subject: Re: browser alternativesRe: very painfully slow safari > > > CB> > CB> Hi, > > CB> Hmm, experiences with Safari obviously vary. I, myself have an > CB> extremely fast experience with it, and it's not sluggish at all. I'd > CB> like to try Firefox once their promise for accessibility is out, but > CB> I'm perfectly happy with Safari. Not to mention trying Google Chrome. > > CB> Regards, > CB> Nic > CB> Skype: Kvalme > CB> MSN Messenger: [email protected] > CB> AIM: cincinster > CB> yahoo Messenger: cin368 > CB> Facebook Profile > CB> My Twitter > > CB> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:50 AM, a radix wrote: > > CB> > CB> Hello, Thanks ever so much for pointing out an alternative browser for > CB> safari. I did not even think for one moment htat ther ewould be an > CB> accessible alternative browser for the mac since I think firefox at > CB> least is > CB> not accessible which would seem to be the only other main > CB> alternative there > CB> is. I myself too find safari to be rather sluggish and slow and this > CB> is on a > CB> VERY fast laptop. > CB> Are there any other accessible browser alternatives for the mac? > CB> Greetings, Anouk, > CB> ----- Original Message ----- > CB> From: "christos hux" <[email protected]> > CB> To: <[email protected]> > CB> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:22 AM > CB> Subject: very painfully slow safari > > > CB> > CB> I was reallysupprised about how sluglish safari was after I did the > CB> upgrade to snow leopard. It drove me crazy so I went & switched > CB> browsers. I now use a older browser called: icab which is shareware > CB> based. Its fully voice over accessable. It costs $20 for a license & > CB> its very snappy in loading webpages unlike the way safari is now. > > CB> > > CB> > > CB> > > > > CB> > > > CB> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
