Hi Alex,

The user must log in, otherwise that would be a great idea.  Thanks.

Les
On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure, in that case. I never had much luck with blackboard, but 
> haven't had to use it for about three years, so they may have improved things 
> since I was forced to endure it. I do know that they optimized it for 
> Internet Explorer, so maybe it is something in Safari? You said you could see 
> the text visually, which is odd as vo seems to not see it. Is there any way 
> you could give us a link, or does the page require the user to log in?
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> I think we tried interacting with the frame, and still could not read the 
>> text.  I should mention that when I tabbed over and highlighted the text in 
>> the frame, VO did not inform me of any text, so this is why I'm figuring we 
>> have a problem.
>> 
>> Les
>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Have the student interact with the frame, and all should work as expected. 
>>> Don't forget to stop interacting when you are done reading the text, or vo 
>>> will keep navigating only what is inside the frame. You can change this in 
>>> the vo utility (vo-f8) if you want to, under the web tab of the navigation 
>>> category I believe.
>>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> I have a student who's trying to use Safari on the Blackboard online 
>>>>> learning system. In the "Discussion Board" section, we are unable to read 
>>>>> plain text in a thread because the text is framed. I'm not sure if it's 
>>>>> possible to remove the frame or somehow navigate the frame.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please let me know if this is possible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Les
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone, please forgive typographical errors!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 29, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Blaise, lots of useful links here where you can get loads of material 
>>>>>> for using the Mac.  I'd encourage you to get whatever you feel is 
>>>>>> appropriate, see below.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From: Esther <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: userguide vor voiceover in 10.8, help pls!
>>>>>>> Date: July 29, 2012 2:27:27 PM EDT
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Reply-To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello Gigi and Others,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There is a VoiceOver downloads page that gives a link to the Lighthouse 
>>>>>>> for the Blind in San Francisco, but so far it has not been updated for 
>>>>>>> Mountain Lion.  So the links for downloading the VoiceOver Getting 
>>>>>>> Started Guide in a web browser, and also to the electronic braille 
>>>>>>> version in .brf format, still point to Lion.  As far as I can tell, 
>>>>>>> versions for Mountain Lion have yet been prepared on these sites.  At 
>>>>>>> some point this page should be updated, but right now it points to Lion 
>>>>>>> versions:
>>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/downloads.html
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It might help your friend to review some of the Vision Australia 
>>>>>>> podcasts on working with VoiceOver.   Also, you can check the AppleVis 
>>>>>>> Guides section:
>>>>>>> http://www.applevis.com/guides
>>>>>>> • "A Guide to Making the Switch from Using a Windows Screen Reader to 
>>>>>>> VoiceOver On a Mac"
>>>>>>> http://www.applevis.com/guides/guide-making-switch-using-windows-screen-reader-voiceover-mac
>>>>>>> • "VoiceOver Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac OS X"
>>>>>>> http://www.applevis.com/guides/voiceover-keyboard-shortcuts-mac-os-x
>>>>>>> • "General Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac OS X"
>>>>>>> http://www.applevis.com/guides/general-keyboard-shortcut-commands-mac-os-x
>>>>>>> • "VoiceOver Gestures for Use with a Multi-Touch TrackPad on Mac OS X"
>>>>>>> http://www.applevis.com/guides/voiceover-gestures-use-multi-touch-trackpad-mac-os-x
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Incidentally, web versions of the "VoiceOver Getting Started" guides 
>>>>>>> for Mountain Lion in many different languages seem to be up,  I'm a 
>>>>>>> little puzzled why William didn't automatically get this by arrowing 
>>>>>>> down to the last element of the VoiceOver help menu (brought up with 
>>>>>>> VO-H).  I don't have Mountain Lion installed yet, so I can't check the 
>>>>>>> language localizations from the loaded packages, but the general rule 
>>>>>>> for Mountain Lion seems to be that you append the language localization 
>>>>>>> code to the web address.  So you start with "help.apple.com", slash, 
>>>>>>> "voiceover", slash, "info", slash, "guide", slash, "10.8", slash, and 
>>>>>>> then add your localization code. If you don't add a localization, it 
>>>>>>> defaults to English, and resolves to an ending of 
>>>>>>> "English.lproj/index.html". This is:
>>>>>>> http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/English.lproj/index.html
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In general, most language localization codes are two letters, followed 
>>>>>>> by a period and the five letter word "lproj" and end with a slash, or a 
>>>>>>> slash followed by "index.html" (either should work). But the older way 
>>>>>>> is to type out the language, such as "Dutch" and "German" and 
>>>>>>> "English", so it's a bit confusing that you use "German.lproj" or 
>>>>>>> "Dutch.lproj" while French, Greek, Danish, and Finnish use the newer 
>>>>>>> two letter code convention of "fr.lproj", "el.lproj", "da.lproj", and 
>>>>>>> "fi.lproj" (with lower case letters).  In the case of Chinese, to 
>>>>>>> distinguish between simplified characters and traditional characters, 
>>>>>>> the language code adds a two letter country designation in caps after 
>>>>>>> an underbar: "zh_CN.lproj" and "zh_TW.lproj", so the VoiceOver user 
>>>>>>> guides in these versions become:
>>>>>>> • Chinese (Simplified Characters)
>>>>>>> http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/zh_CN.lproj/index.html
>>>>>>> • Chinese (Traditional Characters)
>>>>>>> http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/zh_TW.lproj/index.html
>>>>>>> But in most cases, there's a simple two letter code for the language, 
>>>>>>> such as "ar" for Arabic, "ja" for Japanese, "pl" for Polish, etc. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anyone who has trouble viewing current "VoiceOver Getting Started" 
>>>>>>> guides for Mountain Lion in their language can try this scheme, or post 
>>>>>>> back with questions.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> HTH.  Cheers,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Esther
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello Esther
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the information on the voiceover user guide for Mountain 
>>>>>>>> lion. I have however, an additional question. Last year, I downloaded 
>>>>>>>> a brf file from the Apple website for voiceover under snow Leopard. I 
>>>>>>>> also bought the 2 volume set from the San Francisco Lighthouse, and 
>>>>>>>> back then there was a link on the Apple web site to go there to do it. 
>>>>>>>> I have a blind friend who has decided to switch to a Mac. Actually, 
>>>>>>>> she is going to do something that would be difficult under windows. A 
>>>>>>>> sighted friend of hers is going to get her Mac first, and my friend is 
>>>>>>>> going to learn voice over on it. She wants to read the manual ahead of 
>>>>>>>> time, so do you know if there is another link for getting a DRF file 
>>>>>>>> for this? 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Eugenia Firth
>>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> 
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