Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-14 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Johnathan,

thanks for all this info.  Great idea about remapping the Enter key on your 
Numpad.  Unfortunately, I have an MBP, so no numpad here. But I may try 
creating other keyboard shortcuts for shifting focus.  It'd be interesting to 
see if that helps.  I don't mind upgrading to Mojave, I just don't have a lot 
of time right now, so was thinking to do it over the holidays.

It's interesting you bring up groups mode.  I tried it shortly after getting my 
Mac.  I found it kind of disorienting and also didn't like all the interacting 
you had to do, so stopped using it, and probably haven't tried it in about six 
or seven years.  Might give it another go on social networking sites, though.  
In addition to Facebook, the company I work for uses a networking platform 
called Mighty Networks, and also a database program called Airtable.  When I'm 
on those sites, it seems like I'm constantly getting Safari busy messages.
Cheers,
Donna


> On Nov 13, 2018, at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Cohn  wrote:
> 
> AH yes, I highly recommend that you turn off cursor tracking while browsing 
> Facebook with Safari, and it probably would not be a bad idea when viewing 
> twitter either. In Facebook list of people that have liked a post, are 
> expanded when focus moves to them, videos start playing and I believe the 
> list of comments also is somewhat automatically expanded / contracted as 
> focus moves. For this matter, I find best results with Facebook on Macintosh 
> is to use the J/K to move next / previous through posts but this only really 
> reads the posts when you have changed Web navigation from Dom to Group. 
> I remapped the enter key on my  numpad so that enter moves keyboard focus to 
> VO cursor, and shift enter moves VO cursor to keyboard focus. There are a few 
> places in the Macintosh environment where if cursor tracking is turned off, 
> then VO click actions do not behave the way they should. I suppose if I was a 
> good blind citizen I would report all of these to Apple. Certainly one other 
> advantage of turning off cursor tracking is that you don’t get as many 
> instances of VoiceOver repeating items as both Keyboard focus and VO focus 
> move into new windows.
> 
> When VoiceOver was first shipped, they really pushed the group navigation 
> mode on the web, but that is no longer the case. Sometimes it is nice as with 
> Facebook there are usually descriptions and/or label names for the articles 
> regions so that speech is limited to the appropriate level you don’t see the 
> reactions or portions of comments until you interact with the posting 
> article. There are some circumstances where group nav on the web causes links 
> in the middle of a paragraph to be read either before or after the rest of 
> the content in the paragraph, but I don’t think this happens with Facebook 
> and group nav.
> 
> Of course all the above experience is associated with High Sierra or earlier 
> versions of MacOS.
> 
> Take care!
> 
> Jonathan Cohn 
> 
>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Eric Oyen  wrote:
>> 
>> Um, yes and no.
>> 
>> A lot depends on what is being used on websites. Some sites I go to cause 
>> massive slowdowns, constant busy errors and sometimes even full blown 
>> crashes of Safari (it has a lot to do with javascript and 3rd party 
>> redirects).
>> 
>> Also, some of the social media sites (namely Facebook and twitter) still 
>> create windows of high busy periods.
>> 
>> In some ways, it is less problematic than in high Sierra). I would recommend 
>> the use of both Chrome and Firefox as alternatives should Safari have issues 
>> that are not locally resolvable..
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 8:13 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of 
>>> Safari Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in 
>>> Mojave?  Appreciate any feedback.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Donna
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Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
AH yes, I highly recommend that you turn off cursor tracking while browsing 
Facebook with Safari, and it probably would not be a bad idea when viewing 
twitter either. In Facebook list of people that have liked a post, are expanded 
when focus moves to them, videos start playing and I believe the list of 
comments also is somewhat automatically expanded / contracted as focus moves. 
For this matter, I find best results with Facebook on Macintosh is to use the 
J/K to move next / previous through posts but this only really reads the posts 
when you have changed Web navigation from Dom to Group. 
 I remapped the enter key on my  numpad so that enter moves keyboard focus to 
VO cursor, and shift enter moves VO cursor to keyboard focus. There are a few 
places in the Macintosh environment where if cursor tracking is turned off, 
then VO click actions do not behave the way they should. I suppose if I was a 
good blind citizen I would report all of these to Apple. Certainly one other 
advantage of turning off cursor tracking is that you don’t get as many 
instances of VoiceOver repeating items as both Keyboard focus and VO focus move 
into new windows.

When VoiceOver was first shipped, they really pushed the group navigation mode 
on the web, but that is no longer the case. Sometimes it is nice as with 
Facebook there are usually descriptions and/or label names for the articles 
regions so that speech is limited to the appropriate level you don’t see the 
reactions or portions of comments until you interact with the posting article. 
There are some circumstances where group nav on the web causes links in the 
middle of a paragraph to be read either before or after the rest of the content 
in the paragraph, but I don’t think this happens with Facebook and group nav.

Of course all the above experience is associated with High Sierra or earlier 
versions of MacOS.

Take care!

Jonathan Cohn 

> On Nov 13, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Eric Oyen  wrote:
> 
> Um, yes and no.
> 
> A lot depends on what is being used on websites. Some sites I go to cause 
> massive slowdowns, constant busy errors and sometimes even full blown crashes 
> of Safari (it has a lot to do with javascript and 3rd party redirects).
> 
> Also, some of the social media sites (namely Facebook and twitter) still 
> create windows of high busy periods.
> 
> In some ways, it is less problematic than in high Sierra). I would recommend 
> the use of both Chrome and Firefox as alternatives should Safari have issues 
> that are not locally resolvable..
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 8:13 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of 
>> Safari Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in 
>> Mojave?  Appreciate any feedback.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
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Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-13 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Interesting.  I've been thinking about downloading Chrome, but just haven't 
gotten around to it.  I'll keep all this in mind.  thanks, Erik.
Donna


> On Nov 13, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Eric Oyen  wrote:
> 
> Um, yes and no.
> 
> A lot depends on what is being used on websites. Some sites I go to cause 
> massive slowdowns, constant busy errors and sometimes even full blown crashes 
> of Safari (it has a lot to do with javascript and 3rd party redirects).
> 
> Also, some of the social media sites (namely Facebook and twitter) still 
> create windows of high busy periods.
> 
> In some ways, it is less problematic than in high Sierra). I would recommend 
> the use of both Chrome and Firefox as alternatives should Safari have issues 
> that are not locally resolvable..
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
>> On Nov 13, 2018, at 8:13 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of 
>> Safari Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in 
>> Mojave?  Appreciate any feedback.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
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Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-13 Thread Eric Oyen
Um, yes and no.

A lot depends on what is being used on websites. Some sites I go to cause 
massive slowdowns, constant busy errors and sometimes even full blown crashes 
of Safari (it has a lot to do with javascript and 3rd party redirects).

Also, some of the social media sites (namely Facebook and twitter) still create 
windows of high busy periods.

In some ways, it is less problematic than in high Sierra). I would recommend 
the use of both Chrome and Firefox as alternatives should Safari have issues 
that are not locally resolvable..

-Eric


> On Nov 13, 2018, at 8:13 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of Safari 
> Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in Mojave?  
> Appreciate any feedback.
> Cheers,
> Donna
> 
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Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-13 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Thanks.  That's good to hear.  Hopefully I'll see the same improvement.
Cheers,
Donna

> On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:10 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries 
>  wrote:
> 
> It definitely decreased for me after moving to Mojave.
> 
> 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of 
>> Safari Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in 
>> Mojave?  Appreciate any feedback.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
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Re: Is Safari less busy in Mojave?

2018-11-13 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
It definitely decreased for me after moving to Mojave.

'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries  wrote:
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> One of the annoying things about High Sierra has been the frequency of Safari 
> Busy messages I get.  Just wondering if this decreases at all in Mojave?  
> Appreciate any feedback.
> Cheers,
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