It's intended more for tables and the like. It gives vertical navigation through columns.
Danny Sent from my phone On 14/01/2013, at 12:54 AM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > http://www.clgproductions.com > E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com > Phone: 803-760-7136 > Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 > Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays. > ----- 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. 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