Hi Erik, The only other thing I can suggest is to try moving across the download column with mouse keys turned on. Mouse keys will let you move your mouse by keyboard controls to locations that VoiceOver cannot reach. You have to set "Speak text under mouse after delay" to use this. Under VoiceOver Utility, go to "Verbosity" with Command-2, then select the "Announcements" tab. Check the box for "Speak text under mouse after delay", then interact with the slider and set the delay to 0 seconds. Close the window with Command-W.
When you're on the web page, navigate to place your mouse cursor close to where you think the download button will be -- either to an item in an adjacent column, if you're going to move horizontally, or to the column heading, if you're going to move down vertically. Turn on mouse keys in System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access for systems before Mountain Lion). In Mountain Lion you can use the Command-Option-F5 shortcut instead of going through system preferences. I have this set up so I can toggle mouse keys on or off by pressing the Option key 5 times. Then hold down the FN key to use the K, U, I, O, and 8 keys to control the mouse when mouse keys is on. The "i' key sits in the middle of the 9-pack of keys for the old embedded numeric keypad, where "7 8 9" in the top row number keys matched the "7 8 9" on the keypad, and "u i o" matched "4 5 6", with "j k l" matching "1 2 3". Pressing the key to the right or left of the "i" key central "5" position moves the cursor one pixel in that direction with mouse keys on. If you hear VoiceOver announce "download" or something similar when you move over a location with mouse keys, you can click with the cursor by pressing FN+I. (I don't have to use the FN key for mouse keys on my laptop, but I think you have to press the FN key if you're using an extended keyboard with numeric keypad, so in general, use FN+K, U, I, O, or 8). Mouse keys are a way for people with motor disabilities, like tremors from Parkinson's disease, to achieve accurate fine control of mouse positions with the keyboard, so you generally need to do a lot of key presses -- like 50 to 100, or more. If you do a lot of work with mouse keys, you can use VO-F5-F5 or VO-F5-F5-F5 to report the position of the mouse relative to the screen or the current window, and then check this against the x position of your column header, or the y position of your starting point in another column, also reported with VO-F5 twice or VO-F5 three times. Have VoiceOver report in pixels rather than inches or millimeters if you use this -- change the pop up menu button on the Announcements tab under Verbosity for "Speak size and position in" to "pixels". This is the control just before the "Speak text under mouse after delay". HTH. I use mouse keys either to click (FN+I), or to move to problematic locations in web pages or applications with accessibility issues. (This includes having to do any set ups with "Java Preferences" on the Mac, sad to say.) Cheers, Esther On 17 Apr 2013, at 03:56, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi all, Has anyone been successful downloading from Tantor.com on the mac? I > can buy a book just fine and then when I go to my bookshelf I can see the > book that I bought, but the download column of the table is blank. > Apparently there's supposed to be an orange download button but there isn't. > I've tried all the usual stuff. Tabbing doesn't show any extra icons. > pressing vo space on the blank area just dings. Routing the mouse and doing > vo shift space does nothing. Same with routing and pressing the trackpad. > > It works the same way in both safari and crome. > > The site developer suggests switching to internet explorer. > > Any other suggestions greatly appreciated. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the > ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
