Let me try to explain. The following is all my imagination for what is happening.
Apps on Mac are complicated and designed for large screens. So, it is easier to build some container of specified dimensions to contain other objects of specific dimensions also. So, there are different levels of navigation. Let’s consider Safari as an example, The screen contains 4 main containers (toolbar, tab bar, new tab, and web page itself) ignoring the main three buttons of close, zoom/full screen and minimize. In each container, it contains other objects, the toolbar contains back, forward, refresh/stop and share buttons. It also contains address bar. Because programmers define their apps in this way, you find this hierarchy of objects. Well, how can you move across these levels of objects? The answer is interaction. Interacting with object, means that you want to know its content (get a level deeper in the hierarchy). Another way to imagine it is to think of it in the form of roads. The place where you start is just being inside the application. Then, you start choose which road to walk into (toolbar, webpage, tabs bar, …etc). You may find yourself in another cross roads, then just interact. Side Note: In order to be able to type while quick nav is on, you need to get inside (interact) with edit field/combo box/ or whatever you hear by VoiceOver and you can write in it. I’m a programmer, and they are tending to make things easier for them and general to use. This hierarchy does the job for them. The reason for the need of this hierarchy for windows and Mac screen readers is because of the number of buttons in each toolbar. On iOS, Facebook app, you just need two toolbars, one at the very top and the other at the very bottom. And navigating in them takes more than 10 swipes anyway. On the Office word app on Mac/Windows, it contains around 2/3 toolbars, and you can view more. Each toolbar contains at least 10 buttons. So, imagine yourself wanting to get to the page to start typing, and the focus is at the top of the screen!!! It’s a nightmare. You will just delete Microsoft Word to save some space on your disk storage. HTH, Regards, Mohamed E. Fayed PS. I noticed that you’re new to Desktops, you may contact me on Friday/Saturday on WhatsApp/Any other app you want, for faster communication and not to type that much again 😂, on this phone number: +201288055252. > On Dec 9, 2020, at 10:56 AM, 'Gary Price' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi Fazil. > The way I can best try and explain this concept is think of a door. > So if you encounter a toolbar, VoiceOver will stay focused on it but not be > able to access it. > This is where interaction comes into play. > So when you interact with the toolbar, then you can see all the controls. > > But then unless you stop interacting with the toolbar, in other words close > the door you won't be able to resume what you were doing. > To be honest this is a really difficult concept to try and explain in words. > When I got my first mac off a friend, it took me ages to get the concept. > But to be honest because of the way I've got my VoiceOver setup I don't need > to do it much now. > If you need any more help feel free to get in touch with the group. > Hopefully someone will come up with a better explanation. > But like I say it is really difficult to put into words. > > Gary Price > This is my main Email address: > garypric...@icloud.com <mailto:garypric...@icloud.com> > >> On 9 Dec 2020, at 07:59, Fazil <fzlmahmoo...@gmail.com >> <mailto:fzlmahmoo...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Hi. 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