Hi Linda, As I pointed out, it's not a complete solution. It can still be improved, so it's certainly not the preferred method of navigation just yet. You might as well get used to how VoiceOver handles things as opposed to Windows screen readers until it improves somewhat. :)
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Linda Adams wrote: > Thanks to Nic, Chantel and Anne for their comments on this question but > I still haven't had success. My question deals with web pages and I > have a Mac Book 10.6 > > When I began working on this, , like Nic says, I could advance through a > web page with just pressing the down arrow but it would completely skip > paragraphs when I did that. Pressing VO and down arrow did nothing > beside sounding a beep. When I used the right or left arrows, it moved > through the text without skipping anything but read a whole paragraph at > a time. When I got to the beginning of a paragraph, I could interact > with the text but I could only go word by word through the paragraph > using VO right/left arrows. . > > Then, as suggested by Anne, I tried using quick nav for the first time > and things got really strange. I understood that pressing the right and > left arrows together will turn it on and off as a toggle. this has not > been the case. Sometimes it toggles and sometimes it doesn't. Should I > hold the keys or should it be a quick simultaneous press? At one point, > it appeared to have turned on and I was, in fact, able to read through a > paragraph a line at a time. Replicating this has not been easy. And > after playing with the quick nav, I can no longer go through the web > page with just the right and left arrows without pressing the VO keys. > I guess I changed something but I don't know what I did. > The tracking is still on. > > All suggestions are welcomed. > > Linda > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:53 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Read line by line > > > Hi, > > Apple made it possible in 10.6 to read by using only the arrow keys on > websites. However, it seems like a really flaky solution, and doesn't > seem to work all of the time. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have not found a way to read by line when on the internet. >> >> Les >> >> -- >> 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=en. >> > > -- > 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=en. > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2665 - Release Date: 02/03/10 > 08:09:00 > > > -- > 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=en. > -- 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=en.
