Yes, exactly. You have no indication whether the download started or whether it is a broken link. It seems to be mimicking the same behavior as Internet Explorer 9. I much prefer having the download window open and show me the downloads instead of navigating to the toolbar and clicking on the button. Call me old-fashioned,
On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I somewhat disagree with Buddy. OK, the download window is accessible to get > to and once there works, but, if you click a link and a file starts > downoading, you you hear is the link was pressed. You get no indication that > it started downloading a file, so you just have to assume, then go look if > you're so inclined. Definitely! a back-peddle in my opinion. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buddy Brannan" <bu...@brannan.name> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:16 PM > Subject: Re: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues > > > I agree completely with the mail sluggishness issues, particular if a message > is very long or a conversation thread has more than a few messages in it. > However, I don't see the downloads thing as an accessibility issue at all. > The button is perfectly accessible, there's no trouble finding it, and once > opened, the download window looks just like it did before. It's just > different from the previous version, but IMO, no less accessible. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY > > > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > >> Dear MacVisionaries, >> I've just sent the following letter to Apple Accessibility. I hope it >> provides a decent summation of some of the issues we've been experiencing >> with the new OS, and that it will give them a better idea of what sorts of >> things should be looked into when they upgrade the product. >> I'll be sure to forward any response I receive. >> Best, >> Zack. >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Zachary Kline <kli...@onid.orst.edu> >>> Subject: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues >>> Date: July 21, 2011 1:58:13 PM PDT >>> To: Apple Accessibility <accessibil...@apple.com> >>> >>> Dear Apple Accessibility, >>> I have recently upgraded my mid 2010 macbook pro to Lion, and have for the >>> most part been quite pleased with its performance. However, there are a >>> few troubling developments which degrade the overall quality of the >>> experience. >>> THe Launchpad and Mission Control features seem mostly accessible, but >>> there are some omissions which render them less useful than they could be. >>> There seems no way to move applications into folders, or indeed at all, >>> using VoiceOver. Drag and drop does not do the expected thing. Mission >>> Control is somewhat better, but Spaces seem impractical because there is >>> neither any way to delete them nor to move between apps in a single space. >>> Safari and Mail also present accessibility problems. Safari's new >>> downloads popup is not ideal accessibility-wise, and while it works after a >>> fashion the old downloads window was preferable. Similarly, Mail seems >>> sluggish, often reporting that it is busy, especially in the new layout. >>> Drag and drop is inconsistent here as well: the Favorites bar can be added >>> to with the new shortcuts, but Voiceover refuses to drag items which have a >>> press action, thus requiring the old mouse toggling shortcut to remove them. >>> These are a representative sampling of the various issues I've encountered >>> in using Lion with VoiceOver. I hope that at least some of these may be >>> fixed in the near future, as this would greatly improve the usability of >>> the system. >>> Yours sincerely, >>> Zack Kline. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
