Yes that does work. I would also suggest that if you can create a issue report
with Apple Accessibility. The VO drag and drop functionality is very minimal
and needs improvement. There are also things the web developer could do on
their side. There are ways of doing drag and drop much like cut / paste and/or
buttons.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Aug 18, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> Have you tried the alternative way of dragging and dropping with Voiceover?
> You have to turn cursor tracking off first and then you use
> VO-Cmd-Shift-Space to put the mouse down on the item. Navigate to where you
> want to drop the item using the VO keys then bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5
> and repeat the command you used to hold the mouse down to release it.
> This often works where VO-Comma and VO-Full Stop fail.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>
>> On 18 Aug 2017, at 16:10, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I use the latest Safari on MAC OS El Capitan. I subscribe to a web site
>> which from time to time has a questionnaire which requires me to order a
>> list of candidate items into descending order of importance. They ask their
>> users to use a mouse to drag the items into the correct order. As a
>> VoiceOver user I cannot use a mouse to do this. Alas the keyboard commands
>> to mark an item for drag and drop and to subsequently drop the marked item
>> before or after the VO cursor do not work with this web site.
>>
>> I would like to suggest an alternative screen reader friendly way for doing
>> this job to the web site owner. A simple idea would be to ask the user to
>> type a 1 against the most important, a 2 against the next most important and
>> so on. However this has the problem that the user could type a 1 against
>> more than one item and if it is a long list they could have difficulties
>> remembering which priority numbers they have already used.
>>
>> So have any of you seen a web site which offers a screen reader friendly way
>> to order a list of candidate items? If so what do they ask their users to do?
>>
>> Many thanks for any tips.
>>
>> Paul Hopewell
>>
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