Hi Carlene, As a test, I decided to open a couple pages in different tabs and see how VoiceOver handled them. I opened Safari and started a new tab with cmd-t, did a Google search in it with cmd-option-f, and then stopped interacting and went up to the top of the window and found the first tab. I clicked it with vo-space, and it did indeed just tell me the tab was pressed. I checked back at the HTML content and found, as I expected, the first page I'd started from. Are you possibly being tripped up by the fact VO isn't making a sound to let you know the HTML content has changed? As far as Facebook, I don't use it myself, but have heard on this list and other places that it has its own general accessibility issues. I wouldn't be surprised if it misbehaved more than average. I'm sorry VO keeps crashing for you. All I can say is that I don't experience the problem nearly as often as some people seem to, and I use my Macbook Pro extremely heavily. When I bought it a couple months ago, I decided to jump in and put my old Linux laptop in a drawer. I haven't pulled it out since. Hope this helps. I wish I had more concrete information for you. You mentioned redoing your setup from scratch, I suppose that included a complete OS reinstall? If not, perhaps it's time to try that, after suitable backups of course. But then again, that is a pretty drastic measure... Yours, Zack. On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:40 PM, carlene knight wrote:
> Hi Zach: > > Thanks for your reply. I do use cmd+l to load pages also. I think that the > worst problem I have is when I am loading links from pages that are already > open. Also, on Facebook in particular, I have a heck of a time going past > the latest news page. I have turned the load images feature off in the VO > web settings which helped with some of the sites, but now when loading > certain pages like the AP news pages, it will only show the tabs opened and I > have to use the reader, which is fine in most cases, to read an article. I > don't know what might happen though when it can't find the text, which > happens sometimes. Perhaps the page I was trying to load from Google had > some problems, but VO kept saying name of the link and pressed. If I wanted > to go somewhere in a page that loads just showing the tab, I don't quite know > what I would do. When I try to activate the tab with vo/spacebar it simply > says the name of the tab pressed. My computer knows I am complaining as VO > just crashed while writing this message. :) Sometimes I just wish things > would work as they are supposed too. > > > On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > -- 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.
