Hi Teresa, Rahul, and Simon, Just to add a few comments to Simon's answer. Remember, too, that if you are working in Lion and want to browse web pages, that you can enable single-key web page navigation when using Quick Nav mode. Quick Nav mode, where you just press the right or left arrow keys to navigate instead of using VO-right arrow or VO-left arrow, and can activate links and elements by simultaneously pressing the up and down arrow keys instead of pressing VO-space, is particularly useful in navigating web pages. You can toggle Quick Nav mode on or off by simultaneously pressing the left and right arrow keys. To enable single-key web page navigation when Quick Nav mode is turned on, bring up VoiceOver Utility (VO-F8) and navigate to "Commanders" (e.g., press Command-8 to quickly go there), then navigate to the "Quick Nav" tab and select it. On the Quick Nav tab, check the box for "Enable single key navigation when using Quick Nav", then close the window with Command-w to exit VoiceOver utility.
You can now type "1" for the next heading level 1, etc. up through the number 6. You can also type "m" to find the next heading at the same level, etc., or just "h" to find the next heading. This is one of the features that may be familiar to users of the iPhone and other iOS devices who use paired Bluetooth keyboards. It was added to Lion as a Quick Nav option. A very common problem for new VoiceOver users, however, is keeping track of when they are in Quick Nav mode. Remember that if you need to enter text, such as typing in your login name and password on web pages, you have to exit Quick Nav mode if you want this to work. If VoiceOver suddenly doesn't seem to be behaving the way you expect, check whether you are in QuickNav mode and need to turn this off by simultaneously pressing the left and right arrow keys. Another follow-up comment to Teresa and Simon's remarks about using item chooser menu (VO-I): as Simon described, you can type the first few letters of the element you are searching for, and the item chooser menu window will use your search terms to filter out resulting matches. You can then navigate through this filtered list to find the item you want to select. However, you can also use item chooser menu to further filter this list by category. So if I want to find a specific element that I know is a link or a button, after quickly typing the first few letters of the element to get a list of matches, I can then type "b u t" or "l i n" to further filter the list of item chooser matches to only include matches that are buttons, in the first case, or links, in the second case, before I navigate through the list of matches to find the one that I want. Also, remember that when you select one of the item chooser menu entries (either by pressing "return", using VO-space, or by simultaneously pressing the up and down arrow keys when in Quick Nav mode), this only takes you to the position of the item you've been searching for. If it's a button or link, you still need to press or activate it with another VO-space or whatever, if that's what you want to do. (And we haven't even mentioned using TrackPad Commander for navigation and activating links -- that's also possible to use.) HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:44 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Thanks, Simon; I'd entirely forgotten about VO-U. > > Teresa > > "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. > Feynman > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> When on a web page, press vo+u and you will be presented with a choice of >> elements in categories. You can then use your right and left arrow keys to >> move from category to category, e.g. headings, links, visited links, form >> controls, tables, regions, etc. Once you find the category you wish, use up >> and down arrow to read the headings or links within the category and then >> press enter on the one you want. You will find yourself on the element you >> want to examine. If you don't want to make any choices, just press escape to >> get out of the list of categories. Also, remember that item chooser menu >> which you call up with vo+i, will list all the elements/objects on the page, >> and if you know what you are after, you can just start typing the first >> letters of the element/object and you will be on it. Press enter to land on >> it. Press escape if you don't want to make a choice, press backspace while >> in item chooser menu to start typing a new string if you have failed to find >> what you are looking for or if you change your mind and want to look for a >> different string. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Simon >> On 10 Apr 2012, at 16:26, Rahul Bajaj wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there a way of creating a list of all the headings and links on a >>> webpage with VoiceOver? >>> I use this function with JAWS, and it makes browsing webpages a lot >>> easier and faster. >>> So, please shed some light on this matter. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Rahul >>> -- 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.
