Up / down arrows will move the web rotar selection and left right will move by chunks. Do you use Group or Dom navigation?
Best wishes, Jonathan Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net On Apr 29, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I have quick nav on. However, the left/right arrows don't seem to > navigate reliably (I ended up at the bottom of a page, and you can't > read by smaller chunks inside, say, a paragraph of text). Say you're > reading an article and aren't sure how an oddly spoken phrase is > spelled. On Windows, or in an edit area on Mac, you'd arrow to the > line, then move word by word to the phrase, then read word by word or > character by character. How would you do this (efficiently, not by > moving the rotor all over the place and hoping you don't hit the wrong > key and jump out of the entire article) in Chrome or Safari? Even the > "lines" setting on the rotor is not very useful - I still have no idea > what it thinks a "line" is, and it never seems to move me anywhere. > > On 4/29/12, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I haven't had much luck with chrome vox. All it does is crash chrome on my >> machine. If you want to just navigate with arrows, you should just turn on >> quick nav by pressing the left and right arrow keys at the same time. >> >> JMO. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rica...@appletothecore.info >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've heard of Chromevox and I even tried it a while back, but I found it >>> confusing and difficult to work with. Still, if I can arrow around, it >>> might be worth looking into again. Are there any podcasts on it? >>> On 29 Apr 2012, at 20:49, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >>> >>>> You might want to try using chrome vox. If you hit the command key twice >>>> while in chromevox then all the shortcuts are able to be done without >>>> holding down command-control. Chrome Vox does do things a bit different >>>> for arrows. Up/Down is your primary navigator and left / right navigates >>>> at a smaller incrment. >>>> >>>> So if up/down is reading sentences then left / right will navigate by >>>> word. In a table however all four arrow keys while in Object navigation >>>> will navigate by table cell. >>>> >>>> I am not sure if dom/group works in Chomebox. In Safari and Webkit, DOM >>>> mode navigates much like a windows browser with speech. Group mode >>>> combines major clusters of information and will navigate as things are >>>> layed out on the screen to the most part. >>>> Jonathan C. Cohn >>>> jonc...@cox.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I am using Chrome for a web browser, and I have a few questions about >>>>> reading and navigating web pages. >>>>> >>>>> 1. In the vo utility, you can choose either DOM order or grouping. Which >>>>> is better? >>>>> 2. Is there a way to disable the web rotor, so the arrows will act like >>>>> they do in text reading or editing? With letter navigation, I see the >>>>> web rotor as redundant and I'd rather use the arrow keys in the usual >>>>> text navigation way. >>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Have a great day, >>>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>>> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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. >>> >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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. >> >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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. 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