Thanks so much, Esther, for this description and the link to the archived message. I use this with an external numpad sometimes, too...but I sure was hoping that there might be another way to skin the cat. <grin> Thanks again. Ginny
_____ From: Esther [mailto:mori...@mac.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:03 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Hotspots Hi Ginny, I think the problem is that as soon as you start navigating with VoiceOver, you can only navigate to places that VoiceOver will let you move to. It's possible to move your cursor in units of screen pixels if you turn Mouse Keys on and use key presses to move your mouse cursor, independent of where there are elements that VoiceOver recognizes. This is the typical way I deal with sites like Audible.com, where the sound samples for audiobooks can only be played using Flash. If there's a nearby marker that VoiceOver can recognize and move to, I start there and then move right or left by the correct number of screen pixels so that the flash player will activate when I click my trackpad at that position. However, if you simply use the regular VoiceOver interaction to start off with, I don't think you can use hot spots to track these locations. My guess would be that you lose the locations as soon as you start using VoiceOver, since VoiceOver itself doesn't have a way to recognize these spots. (If you're interested in how to currently use Mouse Keys to move around and play the sound samples at the Audible.com site, see this recent post from the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg11128.html (Re: Listening to Audible dot com samples) Cheers, Esther Ginny Owens wrote Hi, Mac listers. I was hoping that hot spots could be set to places VO doesn't naturally go, so I had a sighted friend put the mouse cursor on a certain spot in a screen that's nearly imposible to get to with VO. After setting a hot spot, I attempted to return to that same spot with VO, but instead it took me to the nearest VO-friendly button. So should I assume that hotspots can only be set to VO-friendly spots? Thanks much. Ginny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=.
