Hi Christine, I'm running Lion here, and I won't be able to try this on a machine running Snow Leopard for a few hours. This is certainly an odd web site. I was able to fill in the fields the way Max did by tabbing and then typing. Make sure that you don't have Quick Nav turned on, or that won't work. If Quick Nav is turned on, I can Command-Tab between Safari and TextEdit (a window in plain text mode) and copy and paste in the field information.
I have my navigation options set for mouse pointer ignores VoiceOver cursor, but the way. Yes, the alternative that I use for a mouse click on a laptop keyboard is to Control-click with my trackpad (that is, press the control key and click the trackpad with TrackPad Commander turned off). That also worked to bring focus to the entry fields. Another way to do this on a laptop is to set up your keyboard so that you can turn Mouse Keys on or off by pressing the Option key 5 times quickly in succession. This is a check box under System Preferences > Universal Access > on the Mouse& Trackpad tab. When you turn Mouse Keys on and press the "i" key, this is just like doing a click with a physical mouse. If you are using an extended keyboard with numeric keypad and have NumPad Commander turned on, then another way to click with the mouse is to press the Control key together with the "5" key on the numeric keypad. This assumes that you have not changed the default NumPad Commander definitions. These two options -- using Mouse Keys on a laptop keyboard and pressing the "i" key and using NumPad Commander on a full-size keyboard and pressing Control+"5" on the numeric keypad -- always work when a key click is required. Do not turn on NumPad Commander and Mouse Keys at the same time! You don't need Mouse Keys if you are using a full size keyboard, and it is a bit of a pain toggle it on and off just to "click". Are you sure that you didn't have Quick Nav turned on? Christine, you manage to find more odd web page forms that are problematic with VoiceOver than anyone else I know! HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 6, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > I'm running Snow Leopard, and I did try this, but it didn't work. However, my > husband suggested clicking the mouse before writing anything. This worked. In > fact, when I made an error, I had to hit the mouse in order to select and > delete. Everything else on the site worked as usual. This seems an odd issue. > Is there an alternative to the mouse click? (Also, nothing I typed was echoed > back as I did so; I had to back-track to check. Just because this kind of > thing interests me, does anyone know what might cause this issue? Is it an SL > bug? A fluke? > Christine > On May 6, 2012, at 9:37 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote: > >> hello; I just went to the form. I'm running lion. I tabbed to each field >> and typed in my information. i used shift plus tab to go back and check and >> all my info was correctly imputed. I didn't have a product code so i >> couldn't complete the form. sometimes its best to just press command r to >> refresh the screen. wish i could be of more help. take care, max >> On May 6, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: >> >>> Hello, all. I am trying to fill out a Web contact form at Snapple. It seems >>> that all pop-ups and radio buttons are selecting correctly, but all edit >>> boxes for name, address, phone number, and comments are not taking my >>> inputs. I have tried interacting, writing the information elsewhere and >>> cutting and pasting, and just inputting directly. Either VoiceOver is not >>> reading what I am putting in the edit boxes, or my entries are not being >>> accepted. Obviously, I cannot contact them to let them know of this. :) >>> Could someone please take a look and let me know what you think? TIA. >>> Christine >>> http://www.econsumeraffairs.com/am_bev/contactus.htm?F1=snapple >>> -- 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.
