Hi,

Man, that didn't work with making it think it's Firefox.

To set the sweet spot, you have to press VO-Command-}}. Unfortunately, this is 
another command you can't do on Danish keyboards at least without changing the 
layout.

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On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Could you tell me how to set a sweet spot?
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I use web spots, but always auto web spots. I never set my own. And that's 
>> because The VoiceOver is always right. It's outsmarted me on many occasions. 
>> That may not be very hard to do, but VoiceOver is doing a fantastic job of 
>> it.
>> 
>> Oh, and I sometimes use the "sweet spot". At first, I thought it sounded 
>> dirtier than it really is when it was first introduced. But I like it. It's 
>> a pretty sweet feature, and it's very efficient.
>> 
>> What else? Oh, right. Bug with proper selection by words, characters or 
>> lines has to be fixed in 10.6.3. Prediction. Wrong? We'll see!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nic
>> 
>> P.S: I've had too much coffee for this post. Oh, and has anyone noticed 
>> that, if you write the word "do", Alex says "to"? Do not let yourselves be 
>> fooled. It's actually D O, but it only applies at the beginning of a 
>> sentence or on its own..
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>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>> 
>>> Ya know, i must be stupid or somesuch, but i never got the hang of the hole 
>>> webspot jazz. I just use arrows to navigate around. Ok it's slow going but 
>>> it works. I find webspots to place me either to far above or below things i 
>>> want to go to and so i have to sift through things to get there anyway and 
>>> so i sift through the hole page. Also, i have found, and i don't know if 
>>> i'm the only one, that vo+arrow keys treats web pages as different objects 
>>> when highlighted, so i can only select one line/paragraph at a time and 
>>> then VO acts as if i had reached the end of a group. I only use groups 
>>> mode. (I figured if i should use new things, it's best to use the new 
>>> things all the time, lol.)
>>> /Krister
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 11 feb 2010 kl. 15.46 skrev Ricardo Walker:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> Yup.  I use Safari way more than I do I.E.  now a days.  I honestly 
>>>> couldn't stand the internet on my Mac with Leopard.  But once Snow Leopard 
>>>> came out at the end of August, it changed the game for me.  The rotor 
>>>> function along with the web spots really help things to move a long for me 
>>>> as far as navigating the web.  Even the navigation with the arrows... when 
>>>> it decides to work) has made Safari on the Mac with voiceover a more 
>>>> enjoyable experience.  It all depends on the situation too.  I like using 
>>>> the internet on my Mac when working with sighted people.  it is just a 
>>>> more seamless transition in my opinion especially if one has a track pad.  
>>>> But if I just want to gobble up a large chunk of info really quick I still 
>>>> think jaws and windows has an advantage.   .   
>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was VP of Software Engineering at FS when we invented a lot of what is 
>>>>> now the common user interface on Windows screen readers. I am proud of 
>>>>> the work we did as we certainly moved the art forward.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now, I use Macintosh with Safari. The Windows way of doing things tried 
>>>>> to emulate a word processor or some other similar text manipulation 
>>>>> application with which a user would already be familiar. This is good in 
>>>>> the sense that the learning curve is not too steep but leaves out all of 
>>>>> the contextual information a sighted user would have resulting from the 
>>>>> juxtaposition of objects in the page's layout.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I use both DOM and Groups mode with Safari depending upon the site. A 
>>>>> relatively linear site works best with DOM mode as it likes to function 
>>>>> in a straight line. Busier sites, however, seem to prefer Groups mode as 
>>>>> one can move from big chunk to big chunk rapidly while also learning 
>>>>> where objects are in the layout and, by knowing what's near what, you can 
>>>>> learn to navigate some sites really quickly and without a lot of caca in 
>>>>> between items of value.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The trackpad commander is awesome for web browsing but you need either a 
>>>>> MacBook or MacBook Pro to enjoy this. A friend over at Serotek told me 
>>>>> about a multi-touch trackpad that works both in Windows 7 and Snow 
>>>>> Leopard that you can add onto other models but I haven't seen it in 
>>>>> action.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, give Safari and the VoiceOver features a bit longer, use the rotor, 
>>>>> the item chooser and learn the keystrokes that make web browsing easier 
>>>>> and I think you will start to enjoy it more.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Of course, JAWS introduced the original virtual buffer system for web 
>>>>> browsing back in 1998 and has a lot of time for refinements. It is good 
>>>>> but, especially regarding contextual information, is starting to fall 
>>>>> behind newer and more forward looking ideas popping up around the AT 
>>>>> world.
>>>>> 
>>>>> cdh 
>>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've been a Mac user for almost 2 years, and I personally don't find the 
>>>>>> web browsing experience on my Mac using Safari with voiceover to be on 
>>>>>> par with that of internet explorer and Jaws.  For example,  Look at the 
>>>>>> steps you explained to highlight and copy text "If you interact with 
>>>>>> text, use VO-shift-return, you can initiate marking of text and use 
>>>>>> VO-cursor keys to navigate and mark that text, then use VO-shift-return 
>>>>>> to stop marking the text.  FInally command-c will copy that text for you 
>>>>>> to paste where you choose. You can also interact with text and use 
>>>>>> command-a to highlight all text you can then copy..."  On I.E. you would 
>>>>>> just use shift and the arrows or some function of navigation commonly 
>>>>>> used throughout the Operating system.  In Snow Leopard one should be 
>>>>>> able to use the arrows by them selves to navigate a web page and with 
>>>>>> shift to select.  This is not the case most of the time.  The folks 
>>>>>> didn't include this functionality into snow leopard by accident or just 
>>>>>> to appease windows converts in my opinion.  They realized that the 
>>>>>> previous method was just a pain, not to mention labor intensive  in 
>>>>>> regards to the task actually trying to be accomplished.  I use Dom mode 
>>>>>> and sometimes voiceover indeed skips over chunks of information.  I am 
>>>>>> not saying that Safari with Voiceover isn't serviceable but, by no means 
>>>>>> in my opinion is it as dependable as I.E. with Jaws.  And this is coming 
>>>>>> from someone who Uses their Mac as their primary computer. 
>>>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think you need to take some additional time to learn how best to use 
>>>>>>> Safari with VOiceOver.  I've been using the Mac for five years now and 
>>>>>>> although like any browser and screen reader, Safari and VO has issues, 
>>>>>>> but certainly not to the degree you seem to be having.  Reading line by 
>>>>>>> line is no problem at all and copying information to the clipboard is 
>>>>>>> again, no problem. There is lots of information on how to accomplish 
>>>>>>> both tasks and perhaps a little research on your part will help.  I'll 
>>>>>>> give you a tip.  If you interact with text, use VO-shift-return, you 
>>>>>>> can initiate marking of text and use VO-cursor keys to navigate and 
>>>>>>> mark that text, then use VO-shift-return to stop marking the text.  
>>>>>>> FInally command-c will copy that text for you to paste where you 
>>>>>>> choose. You can also interact with text and use command-a to highlight 
>>>>>>> all text you can then copy.  You coming from windows and using IE may 
>>>>>>> find DOM mode more like your browsing experience under windows using a 
>>>>>>> windows-based screen reader.  If your using Groups mode, you are going 
>>>>>>> to find the navigation of the page not to be linear as is provided by 
>>>>>>> DOM mode.  Groups mode gives a more accurate representation of how the 
>>>>>>> page is laid out unlike DOM mode.
>>>>>>> Once you have used Safari a while, I think you will find it will meet 
>>>>>>> your needs just fine.  I am not so sure that even if Firefox is made 
>>>>>>> accessible, you will find the browsing experience significantly 
>>>>>>> different.  I think what you will find is some differences in browsing 
>>>>>>> experience as far as how some sites behave, but assuming Mozilla 
>>>>>>> leverages the accessibility hooks of VO, the navigation will likely be 
>>>>>>> quite similar.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Oh I would so love to have an alternative to Safari!  I'm a fairly 
>>>>>>>> recent switcher and I don't miss Windows at all except that I totally 
>>>>>>>> and absolutely miss the great accessibility I had with IE.  I hate the 
>>>>>>>> fact that I can't read line by line or copy web page text to the 
>>>>>>>> clipboard and he disturbing thing with VO and 
>>>>>>>> Safari is that I find that whole parts of pages are not read at all.  
>>>>>>>> I think Safari is the app I most dislike on the Mac.  Everything else 
>>>>>>>> about the Mac is wonderful.
>>>>>>>> On Feb 10, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Looking forward to trying out Firefox with VO working someday. FF has 
>>>>>>>>> really good ARIA support so it would be nice to have a browser on the 
>>>>>>>>> Mac that works well with this standard. Safari currently is weak. 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> CB
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> This morning I posted a new blog article on my site: First Glance at 
>>>>>>>>>> Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard, which can be accessed at 
>>>>>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ygkfqoj
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,Everett
>>>>>>>>>> 
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