Hi Scott, I'm not Linda, but I had to respond to your note to her re the differences between moving around on a page among elements with Window Eyes or Jaws and Voice Over. You said that you didn't see much difference between pressing h by itself or pressing 3 additional keys in addition to h to move among headers. And you say this is easily done with one hand? You must have amazing hands. I can no way do that. I've been touch typing for decades. It gets even more interesting when you add the shift into the mix to go up the page in reverse order. Doable? yes? As easy as pressing one key? Not by a long shot. Are there other benefits, such as not having to go in and out of forms mode? for sure. The added functionality for VO on the web in Snow Leopard is one of the main reasons I decided to try a Mac. I really appreciate the numpad commander, although learning it was not as intuitive as learning mnemonics on the regular keyboard. In no way is the rotor as efficient for me as having that array of single letter keystrokes that let me move among various web elements at will. Another thing I hope can be implemented in the future is a means of letting focus return to where it was when you return back to a previously visited page. That's a big time saver with the Windows screen readers, although it doesn't always work. Its nonexistent with vo. I like the fact that pages seem to load faster with Safari than they do with IE and a screen reader. Over all, for me, the Windows experience is still more efficient. But there are pluses with the Mac, and I'm hoping it will keep improving. Group mode is something I have tried and dropped. I just never found a page where it seemed to offer any advantage, since I don't really care how the page is laid out. I want info and where it is on the page just doesn't seem very important to me, so long as I can get to it efficiently. Maybe I don't go to the right sites where group mode's benefits are displayed to best advantage.
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