Hi Geoff.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but VO in Safari doesn't seem to
support the functionality you're referring to. Vo doesn't navigate the
document in the word-processor-like style you're used to in JFW. I'm a JFW
user as well, and I lament this issue very much for the exact same reason
you do, reading/copying code. I wrote to Apple about it and explained this
style of web navigation and requested that they make it an option in VO in
addition to the other methods already available. I sent the note 2 or 3 days
ago, so we'll see what happens. I suggest you do the same. The address is
[email protected]

Tony Hernandez
http://dutyofman.net/
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His
commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every
work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether
it be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoff Waaler
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Virtual viewer in Safari?

Greetings,

When I read code examples from URL:
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-ipho
ne-development via JFW and FireFox/MSIE, the lines appear correctly in
Jaws's virtual viewer.

When I navigate via Safari in OSX 10.6.7, however there is no easy way to
copy/paste lines of code or even to easily discern where a line ends.  I
tried both DOM and group modes and the reader (command-shift-r), but have
not yet discovered a way to read lines of code as they are written.

When I use the trackpad, only the part of the line under my finger is read.
My VO utility setting to announce all punctuation is apparently ignored
because characters such as the equal sign are not verbalized as I move over
them, but are visible to voiceOver when I use the "move right" command
(right flick or vo-arrow).  When I interact, only part of the line is
displayed.  I attempted to select all and copy to a file in the textEdit
application, but the result was also unreadable.

I feel as though I must be missing something because many here are using OSX
exclusively to navigate the web, yet I repeatedly see examples such as the
one illustrated above where tasks are difficult or impossible to perform in
Safari which can be done easily in JFW.

TIA for any/all suggestions other than my current solution of reading the
page in JFW and manually copying lines into xCode.

Best regards.
Geoff

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