Yes turn auto reading off and your voice over cursor should then appear where keyboard is. I used to have this problem too and after turning auto web page reading upon a page loading my cursor is ready and waiting in the google text field (google is my home page too).
I have not come across text elements yet, but start training on JAWS soon so it will be interesting to see how it compares. Do you think they might add this feature to VoiceOver or is it not needed? On 23 Jun 2010, at 01:07, Mary Otten wrote: > When I go to the google search page, which is my home page, I always land > right in the edit field into which one types search terms. So I think you > might be onto something with your theory that having Safari set to read pages > automatically could be causing the VO cursor not to land directly in that > edit field. As for the other things, not being able to hit a specific key and > go directly to various types of elements, having come from Windows, I still > have to say I prefer that more direct way over the rotor. But you can set up > numpad commander to have single key access to things, so that helps. Web > pages also load a lot faster on my Mac than they do on my Windows pc, some > times, a lot faster, which is a time saver. > > mary > > -- > 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.
