Grant,
Thank you for all these tips. I was actually aware of all of them with the
exception of the fast searching.
I suppose that I could set up fast searching with the right command key,
then simply just attach it to an activity which I assign to Safari.app? If
so, then beautiful! This is precisely what I need.
Chris.
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From: "Grant" <grant.li...@icloud.com>
To: "MacVisionaries List" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: web site navigation by group verses DOM: Opinions wanted
I believe Yuma is referring to VoiceOver’s fast searching feature. This can
be enabled from within VoiceOver utility (press CTRL+OPTION+F8 to get in
there). The setting you want, “enable fast searching”, is in the navigation
section. Once you turn this on, you could, for example, go to www.apple.com,
hit CMD+W, and you’ll land on the watch link. Only one COMMAND KEY is used
for fast searching, which is the right COMMAND KEY by default. This leaves
the left one to perform normal functions, such as CMD+W to close the window.
As a note, here is a couple navigation tips that are often overlooked:
1. As of OS X Yosemite, you can use many standard navigation and text
selection commands, such as UP and DOWN ARROW KEYS, to navigate through web
pages in addition to VoiceOver’s commands. For the most part, you can use a
combination of standard text navigation commands and VoiceOver commands
depending on whichever are more convenient at a given moment..
2. Recall that there are many built-in navigation commands as well such as
VO+CMD+L to navigate by link, VO+T to navigate by table, and VO+CMD+J to
move through controls. Adding SHIFT reverses the direction of any of these
commands. You can also use VO+F to find a text string and move to the
relevant element containing that string. VO+G and VO+SHIFT+G will find the
next or previous instance of that string.
3. As was pointed out by another lister, you can configure whether TAB and
SHIFT+TAB move through links and form fields, or only form fields, from
Safari’s advanced preferences. I’ll add another tip: you can use OPTION+TAB
and OPTION+SHIFT+TAB to reverse this setting. So, if you have TAB and
SHIFT+TAB setup to move through links and form controls, then using
OPTION+TAB and OPTION+SHIFT+TAB is a great way to move through forms.
Hope this helps.
Grant
On Jun 17, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Christopher Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Uma,
Thank you so much for this. This info you've provided is excellent! Where
do I set that with the right command key for fast searching? I know I've
seen it, I just can't for the life of me recall where.
Chris.
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