Hi, Twitter is one where I would use an external app, namely YoruFukurou which you can get from the app store or www.yorufukurou.com and where the menus tell you the keystrokes you need to do things. Far easier than the website.
Cheers Dave On 11 Jan 2014, at 11:38 am, April Brown <aprilbrownwr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David Taylor, > > Thanks for your information. I will keep that in mind and try to > figure out what it means. I posted on another thread what I'm really thinking > about this. As a writer, I will have to be able to use Twitter. So I will be > creating a step-by-step guide for me to use. Apparently only a different > step-by-step guide for every single webpage. And maybe someday I'll figure > out what all those strange terms mean that are listed on the voiceover help > pages. > > I design websites, and I still have no idea what is meant by auto web > spot, web spot, web rotor, sweet spot, and a dozen other unrecognized terms > in this paperwork. I can only imagine what someone has never used the > Internet for more than e-mail or maybe checking Facebook would think when I > try to figure this out. Baby even more lost than me. > > Thanks for your help and I'll be checking back in. > > Have a nice day, > > April > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:53:39 PM UTC-5, David Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > Actually, you’ve picked pretty difficult sites to start with there. Twitter, > for instance, has all sorts of available keystrokes for reading things, but > VO isn’t perfect on there, usable but not perfect. Most Google sites have > become awful and most of us don’t use an awful lot of Google features other > than GoogleGroups via email, Youtube and search. Also, reading a VO manual > doesn’t explain to a sighted person how a blind person generally navigates. > For instance, I, and many I know, would turn hick nag on and enable single > letter navigation keys to get any sensible use of the web. This is done in > the commanders section of the VO utility. > > Also, I suspect your VO is set to go to the top left of every screen rather > than to the cursor position, so you will probably have to uninteract with > things, find the HTML area, interact with it, etc. This is changed in the > Navigation section of the VO utility. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers > Dave > > On 10 Jan 2014, at 07:43 pm, April Brown <aprilbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Please help me. >> >> I can design a website with HTML and CSS sheets, working links, and shopping >> cart, and can't figure out how to make VoiceOver work. >> >> I've probably read every online manual I can find. And still, it's a no go. >> >> I spent probably two hours on it today. Somehow, it did almost work in Mail. >> >> As for the Internet. I tried every key combination listed in all the web >> manuals I down loaded and printed to no avail. Sure, it would the top line >> that says " >> File, Edit," etc... One time, I even got it to read the left pane in >> Twitter. I still cannot get it to read posts in Twitter, these forums, >> Google Plus, or Facebook. >> >> Can someone please treat this old web designer like someone who has never >> turned on a computer and tell me the steps to use VoiceOver to read a simple >> webpage. I figure, if I can learn to use it on Twitter, I can figure the >> rest out. If I can just figure out how to get it to leap from the menu bar >> to the web page. >> >> Than k you, >> >> April Brown >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
