This is one area where I like the way voice over handles things. You never have to worry about accidentally typing characters in to a form field, because pressing just the letters always types them, and there are different commands for navigating elements. And no forms mode to deal with, move to the control and start typing. Also, voice over is great at handling pages that change dynamicly, I have yet to see a windows screen reader handle this as well as voice over does, though system access comes close. On Oct 11, 2010, at 4:53 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
> Hi Neil, > When you use things like h to move among headers, you're using jaws key > commands. All those handy one key commands you use with internet explorer are > jaws, not Windows commands. And the trade off for those is the necessity of > forms mode in Jaws, browse mode in Window Eyes, etc. So enter a form and > instead of typing right away, you have to first enter forms mode, which is > accomplished with a specific screen reader command, because that mode is not > native to the os. Don't get me wrong. I also really like the single key > navigation you can accomplish on the web with a windows screen reader. But > there are productivity tradeoffs involving forms mode and loading of the > virtual buffer. > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > 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.
