Hi Ricardo, What Ray refers to are my posts about using Mouse Keys to move the cursor. Basically, VoiceOver can't navigate to the locations where you click to play the samples, because the Flash doesn't present an anchor point for VoiceOver to move to. So we use another accessibility trick, which is to turn on Mouse Keys, and use the fact that we can move to the "sample" label, then offset a fixed number of pixel moves to the right and click on the control that will play the sample. Mouse Keys is an accessibility solution for people who have motion disabilities -- generally where they lack the fine control to exactly position the mouse cursor. On full size keyboards, you use the numeric keypad arrow keys to shift your cursor relative to your starting point. On the Audible web pages, if I do a search by author, the controls for playing the audio sample are generally centered 48 pixels to the right of the "sample", so I find the "sample" below the link image for a book, turn on mouse keys, and just press the key to move to the right 50 times (50 pixels), then I press the trackpad button. You have to disable cursor tracking.
Here are a couple of old posts that explain the process: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg13577.html (Re: Using VoiceOver to listen to audible samples) http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg11128.html (Re: Listening to Audible dot com samples) The only thing is, they redesign the pages, so you have to modify the number of key presses to move to the right. But you can modify this technique to make things work by re-calibrating it once. Basic principle is that mouse keys gives you a way to move to a location that VoiceOver can't get to, when you know the control you want is a fixed number of pixels away. You just tap the control to move the mouse cursor in the correct direction the calibrated number of times (generally 50-60 pixels to the right for Audible on my MacBook screen). HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 15, 6:08 pm, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > In the archives I believe, but, let me check quick and see if I saved them. > > Ah yes, I did save them. Here they are. > > 1. Find the book from which you wish to play a sample. > > 2. Open that book's page. > > 3. Find where it says "sample" on the page. > > 4. Now, manually rout the mouse pointer to the word "sample" by pressing > command+VO+shift+F5. > > 5. Now, lock down the VO keys via command+semicolon. > > 6. Press F5 to ensure that the word "sample" is under the mouse. You may > wish to press VO+command+shift+F5 to make doubly sure. > > 7. Now, move your mouse directly in an exactly straight line to the right. > Make very certain you move directly in only a straight line going neither up > nor down or at an angle of any sourt. IF you're using a track padd, you can > place a finger directly on the very left uper corner and move right. Move > very slowly as you do so. > > 8. As you move your mouse, press F5 one time after another to make certain > of what the mouse is resting over. > > 9. When you hear, "empty scrol area" you will know to stop moving the mouse. > > 10. Now, press and hold down your control key and actually click press the > mouse itself or else, if using your track padd, physically press the padd. > > Here's another way to get to this point. > > A. Turn your mouse keys on. > > B. Rout your mouse to the word "Sample" on the spot for the book you wish to > listen from. > > C. Now, press the option key five times to a activate your mouse keys. > > D. Next, move the mouse 25 clicks to the right by pressing the o key which > will, (with mouse keys on) act as the mouse key right arrow. > > E. Now, control click the Mouse by pressing control+i which will, (with > mouse keys on) act as the mouse click key. > > Now, you're back at the next step below. > > 11. At this point, a menu consisting of thirteen items will appear. Just > arrow down and press the space bar on the play button. > > Note that, after you've started a sample playing, you will need to > turn off Voice Over and turn it on again. Otherwise, You will not see the > thirteen item menu when you go to play the next sample. > > HTH. > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! > > Skype Name: > barefootedray > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > > > > > Interesting, > > > I've never been able to get samples to play on the audible site with webkit > > or safari. Do you mind giving step by step instructions on how you > > accomplish this? > > > TIA > > > Ricardo Walker > > [email protected] > > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > >> I have just noticed a very piculiar new behavior with Web kit and Audible. > > >> When I went to rout the mouse to the word "sample" on a book, the mouse > >> refused to rout where I wanted it to go. With Safari, on the other hand, > >> it did. Consequently, It seems no longer possible to play Audible samples > >> using Web Kit. IF this is what Safari is going to be like, (in other > >> words), if we're seeing future Safari builds in current versions of Web > >> Kit, get ready to have issues playing Audible samples using Safari also > >> because the mouse cannot rout to the word sample. > > >> Sincerely, > >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > >> Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! > > >> Skype Name: > >> barefootedray > -- 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.
