That's right. In the case of safari, the status bar shows the page load progress and that is about it. The reason I happen to know is that in safari, the status bar is viewable with VO by navigating once to the right of the html area where the web page is displayed. I've never duplicated this in other apps that have a status bar though.
Best, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 Visit my all new website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-04-15, at 10:11 AM, Doug Lawlor wrote: > Hi Marie, > I know about the vo-shift-m twice command to read the status menu. I am > talking about something different here. To get an example of this go into > Safari and type command-slash and you should hear Vo either say "Show status > bar" or "Hide status bar" depending on it's current state. I am trying to > figure out how to read this particular status bar. > > Thanks, > > Doug > > On 2010-04-15, at 11:31 AM, marie Howarth wrote: > >> Hi Doug, >> vo--shift--M twice will bring up the status bar. >> It holds such items as your clock, battery status if you are using a mac, >> and for several apps such as time machine and bluetooth, >> hth >> >> On 15 Apr 2010, at 14:44, Doug Lawlor wrote: >> >>> Hello all: >>> I am relatively new to the mac and have a quick question. I notice in >>> several applications, Safari being one of these, there is a command in the >>> view menu to show and hide the status bar. However, when I show the status >>> bar I cannot seem to read this using any of the Voiceover commands. How >>> does one go about reading the status bar? Am I missing a command? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Doug >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
