Eileen,
It's actually the right command key that does the quick search navigation,
not the right option key, so you should be fine.
If you're concerned about globally across the OS not being able to use your
right command key, then I'll betcha we can set up an activity just for the
specific apps you want to have that functionality.
God I love the activity manager. Probably one of the sweetest! features in
Voiceover in my opinion.
Chris.
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From: "Eileen" <eileen.misr...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: web site navigation by group verses DOM: Opinions wanted
Hi Grant and All,
If one uses the right option key in web navigation, will it interfere with
using the right option key (if set) in keyboard commanders to create
shortcuts? I didn't know if the right option key worked independently in
different apps. I'm just curious.
Thanks.
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 17, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Grant <grant.li...@icloud.com> wrote:
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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