Thanks Zach. We did indeed reinstall Snow Leopard as well. It might have helped with busy signals I was getting across the board in basically every program I ran. So the tab opens even though the computer gives no indication that it did? I think I tried looking that way too, but I will check it out again. Why some pages won't load open though is a mystery to me. Perhaps it is one of the VO settings I changed to help the busy signals, and then just the general lag time. I will do more expeerimenting when I have time. Thanks again.
On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
