One word of warning regarding I O S's virtical navigation that I just
discovered.
Be careful. If you have multiple items on the same line of the screen,
you're gonna find that it will scroll you to the first item in that row, but
if you then flick down, you'll land on the item right under it, not the
literal next item. So when they say virtical navigation, take it for what
it says. They literally mean! virtical? navigation. In other words, let me
see if I can give a more practical example.
Now, in Safari, things might work differently, but let's say for example,
you're in Safari, and you double tap on the pages tab in the bottom right
corner to bring up your pages tabs navigator. Now say, you go to the very
top left item of this screen. If you then flick to the right as you'd do
normally, you'll eventually find that you land on the close tab button. OK,
now go back to the top left most item, and this time, instead of flicking to
the right with one finger as you just did, make sure your rotor is on
virtical navigation, then one finger flick down. Keep flicking down with
one finger... See what I mean? It's not hitting the close page button, is
it? See? The reason's because that close page button is not the very first
item on the row. So if you wanted to use navigation,... ok, now this is
interesting... If I flick right, I hear the name of the page at the top, I
flick right again, then hear the u r l of the page, then one more flick is
the close tab button. Now, as I just did this again, I noticed something
that I didn't before. I'm hearing the Voiceover navigational direction
sound which tells me it's wrapping down to the next line and starting me
back at the far left margin of that line. So this is kind a weird, as I
hear the title of the page, I flick right, then it wraps me virtically down
apparently, to the next line which is apparently the u r l, then it wraps me
again to the 3rd line which apparently starts with the close tab button.
So, what I'm trying to say is, it appears from a Voiceover perspective that
those items do indeed! go virtically straight up and down. So if that is
the case, then I have no idea! why virtical navigation is then skipping over
the close tab button, yet flicking left and right as normal hits it. That's
really bizarre. My mom just left for church, so I can't have her look right
this second, but if I remember to do so, I'll haver look when she gets back
home this afternoon and I'll let you guys know visually how it actually is
laid out. I'm just curious why if it really is! moving virtically, why then
that rotor setting sees it otherwise. I could see this as potentially being
a bad thing, as you'd wind up thinking you were navigating normally only to
find that you skipped a lot of very possibly, very important things. The
bottom line in this post is just to say, beware, and use this feature with a
bit of caution.
Chris Gilland.
Founder of CLG Productions
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Kriegler" <kriegle...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Vertical Navigation
I just checked on the Mac, and there is not a setting in Safari for
vertical navigation.
Les
On Jan 13, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
Hi guys.
I was looking for something else in VoiceOver on the iPhone, and I came
across the rotor setting of vertical navigation. I assume this is for
Safari. Is there a rotor setting for the Mac for vertical navigation?
Regards,
Gigi
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