Re: Safari questions

2015-01-12 Thread Alex Hall
I never knew about command-shift-brackets, thanks. I just use control-tab or control-shift-tab, though neither ever felt very Apple-like since Apple rarely uses control as a modifier for a menu command. > On Jan 12, 2015, at 5:25 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > If the link d

Re: Safari questions

2015-01-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
If the link did open in a new tab you can use command shift left bracket to move to the previous tab or command shift right bracket to move to the next tab. Either one will cycle you through all the tabs. If it's multiple windows then you have to use command accent to switch back to the previou

Re: Safari questions

2015-01-11 Thread Terje Strømberg
One another back command is: vo-cmd+home, then you will here «back/forward group» hit vo+space. Once in a while, try cmd-left arrow, just to check. I also have full qwerty/Numeric usb keyboard. A while back cmd+left arrow did not work, but now it does. Take care 11. jan. 2015 kl. 01:05 skrev L

Re: Safari questions

2015-01-10 Thread Alex Hall
Keychain saves usernames, passwords, and the like. If you visit a login page you've visited before, and if you previously saved the login information for that page, you will find the username and password filled in when the page loads, no need to do anything. As to the Back command, I'm not sur

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-17 Thread Andrew Lamanche
If a table is long, to get to the first cell in the first row, press fn+vo+left arrow. To get to the last cell of the table in the last row, press fn+vo+right arrow. Also, if you have a few tables present, to move to a table on a page press vo+command+t. You can do it repeatedly to move quickly

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-16 Thread Hank Smith
if u have multiple tables with colums do you have to vo left and vo wrote to go to colums with in a table? not sure if this makes any sense. Hank On 8/16/2012 10:48 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: I see that no-one has so far discussed tables with you. While interacting within a table in HTML content,

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-16 Thread Steve Holmes
I see that no-one has so far discussed tables with you. While interacting within a table in HTML content, use the VO-Arrow keys to move around in the table. So to move up and down, hold down the VO keys and use up and down arrows. That should move you down in the same column and not push back

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-09 Thread Brian Fischler
In a web page command option F takes you directly to google search from what I can tell in ML Command L and this previous command serve the same exact function On Aug 8, 12:20 am, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Oh how nice. I didn't realize that one could also search with command-L. > So when would one

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-07 Thread Les Kriegler
Command-S on a web page gives one the option to save/export the current page. Les On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > I believe command F searches just the current page or area you're on, Whereas > command L gets you to the search field for google or to enter a web address. >

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-07 Thread Rachel Feinberg
I believe command F searches just the current page or area you're on, Whereas command L gets you to the search field for google or to enter a web address. On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Oh how nice. I didn't realize that one could also search with command-L. So > when wou

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-07 Thread Veronica Elsea
Oh how nice. I didn't realize that one could also search with command-L. So when would one use Command-F? And where would this command look for things? Thanks so much. Veronica Watch and hear Veronica Elsea's Prayer for a Soldier at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoIhWrBHFI Then find more

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-07 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Veronica, For the keystroke to quickly go to the address bar where you can either google search, or type in a URL is command+l. I'll wait, (along with you), for someone to explain tables, since i'm still new to this as well. Rachel On Aug 7, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Hi eve

Re: safari questions

2010-12-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
Group mode is another way to browse web pages. Basically, voiceover groups items, such as a list together, if you want to read the items in a group, you interact with the group. I generally don't use group mode because there's too much interacting involved, but some people find it useful. You ca

Re: safari questions

2010-12-18 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Carolybn, you are the best. I didn't know about command space. I shared this with Gary as well, since though he is not a vo user and his more advanced than I on the Mac, he is learning as well though he really is way ahead of me. Marlaina On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi M

Re: safari questions

2010-12-18 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Marlaina: Here's something else you can do to start to feel more comfortable with your mac. Press the command key and spacebar. This is called spotlight search. Now, type in either users guide or getting started. All of this info is actually right here on your mac, or easily reached on lin

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I went to the chapter and once again, Apple's documentation is messy for > me.  it talks clearly about doing vo hh and typing dom, but then it goes on > to suggest that I assign a key for keyboard commander, but

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Benjamin, Thanks for providing the text case. My configuration matches yours exactly (I have 10.6.5 installed) but my results vary from what you and Ricardo report in both Safari and the latest Webkit version. When I launch the URL referenced below and navigate to the level 1 heading conta

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok, I went to the chapter and once again, Apple's documentation is messy for me. it talks clearly about doing vo hh and typing dom, but then it goes on to suggest that I assign a key for keyboard commander, but doesn't tell me how to do that or give me a link to where that is found. I guess I'

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I'll give that a shot Benjamin, but I have a hard time with apple's documentation and haven't learned much that way. But, I'll try. Marlaina On Dec 17, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok I'm sorry,

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Carolyn Haas
Interesting, Ricardo. Today in my one to one, we were dis ussing the fact the VO often doesn't give any indication that it's doing what you've asked it to do. I know in that other unmentionable system, it's an option one can turn on and off by the degree of verbosity. But I don't recall wheth

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
So if VO isn't talking, but the shift down arrow is selecting, isn't that something about which we should write to Apple? Gary, my sighted husband, told me that shift down arrow works for him just as it does in windows. Marlaina On Dec 17, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi Geoff, W

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Thabnks Carolyn. I do have a file called voiceover hints for just that purpose. Marlaina On Dec 17, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Marlaina: Just a tiny bit of advice from someone who is still just beginning to understand this stuff. Don't try to remember it as you get it. Collect or

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
If the text you want is in several items, admitedly, you will need to follow the procedure for each item, in that case, your method may actually be faster. On Dec 17, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Ok Mike, > > I just went to > http://www.vegancoach.com/how-to-cook-a-turnip.html >

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok I'm sorry, but what is group mode, how do I switch to it and how do I know > when I want to switch to it? See http://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1134.html#mchlp2711 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis -- You recei

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok I'm sorry, but what is group mode, how do I switch to it and how do I know when I want to switch to it? Marlaina On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:11 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, The control option shift c method is a pain on that particular webpage. I made it a bit less daunting by switching to gr

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > That or you may want to perform a modicum of testing before sending your > posts? I _did_ do a modicum of testing. Specifically, I fired up Safari and VoiceOver and tested out the effect of shift-arrow on an existing select all and to start

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Geoff, What Benjamin said, seems to be accurate in my case. I went to a web page and pressed shift down arrow a few times, then pressed command C. Then I opened up text edit and pasted and there was the lines of text from the webpage. While I was selecting, Voiceover gave me no speech fee

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Benjamin, I'm beginning to have the impression that either we can not communicate or you're using entirely different software than what is being discussed here. I'd suggest that we take this part of the discussion off line so as not to spread bogus info. That or you may want to perform a modi

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Carolyn Haas
Marlaina: Just a tiny bit of advice from someone who is still just beginning to understand this stuff. Don't try to remember it as you get it. Collect or copy things, and then when you're actively doing something and need the info, it's there waiting for you. I have found it immensely helpful

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Obviously control+a control+c are identical with their command key Mac > counterparts, however in the Mac world one can not be > selective in their selection with the shift+arrow keys while viewing a web > page. Well, once you've selected

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Waaler
Yes Benjamin, I was not clear. Obviously control+a control+c are identical with their command key Mac counterparts, however in the Mac world one can not be selective in their selection with the shift+arrow keys while viewing a web page. Carolyn correctly differentiated what I meant from what

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, The control option shift c method is a pain on that particular webpage. I made it a bit less daunting by switching to group mode. That grouped some of the smaller items for me so that I could sweep them up faster and it also made it possible for me to get just the article without the ted

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Eric, I'll try that but I still have a problem when each item is only a line. Man, I hope I can remember all this safari stuff, :) So control option shift c will copy the text of the item I just heard. Control option return will begin selecting and control option return will stop selecting an

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok Mike, I just went to http://www.vegancoach.com/how-to-cook-a-turnip.html and tried to follow your instructions. Each line is showing up as its own item, so when I interact with it, I still only get a line at a time. Also, I could not move by character, only by word. I did find that by tur

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok Mike, but I can't always seem to interact. Before I continue whining though, let me try out your method and see what happens. Thanks so much! Marlaina On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: The answer to bot of these is to interact with the item. You can then read it word by wor

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Marlena, I see no one has suggested control shift c yet. I'm not sure how I got along without that keystroke on windows. It works like this. You hear voiceover say something, you press control option shift C, you paste where you like. So, If all of the instructions for your recipe are in

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > We're talking about the ability to copy something like an article or collumn > of text without having to do select-all and chop later. > I think Geoff is saying the method of Vo-Shift-Return to set start and stop > selecting wasn't working w

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Carolyn Haas
Benjamin: I don't think you read before responding to this post. We're talking about the ability to copy something like an article or collumn of text without having to do select-all and chop later. I think Geoff is saying the method of Vo-Shift-Return to set start and stop selecting wasn't wor

Re: safari questions

2010-12-17 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Okay, but when a page consists of hundreds of items, one must do this Items > times N times rather than pressing control-a -> control-c in MSIE or FireFox? >  I attempted to use the technique described below to copy a long oped column > and

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Okay, but when a page consists of hundreds of items, one must do this Items times N times rather than pressing control-a -> control-c in MSIE or FireFox? I attempted to use the technique described below to copy a long oped column and very quickly gave up and booted up the old Netbook. TIA for

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ok. Mike, Your a genius. It worked like a charm. This is great for those pages that don't let you navigate and select text by just using the arrows and the shift key. Thanks Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 16, 201

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Sorry about that. I meant safari or webkit. Meaning its a function built into the web browser, not a voiceover feature. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Hmmm,

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
reader mode is a mac function, aside from voiceover. On Dec 16, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Is reader mode a vo or a Mac function? > On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > If you are reading articles from blogs or Newspapers, then command-shift-R > will put you in

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
The answer to bot of these is to interact with the item. You can then read it word by word, or character by character. To select text, interact with the item, then press control option enter at the beginning of what you want to copy. Now move to the end of the text to copy and press control opti

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Hmmm, ok what is the safari webkit? On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Its a Safari/webkit function. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Is reader

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Its a Safari/webkit function. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Is reader mode a vo or a Mac function? > On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Yah, that's what I've been doing, but it's a pain and very time-consuming for sure, especially if all you are doing is clipping a recipe or something like that. On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Marlaina, the easiest way to deal with all of that is to simply select all on the

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Is reader mode a vo or a Mac function? On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: If you are reading articles from blogs or Newspapers, then command-shift-R will put you in "Reader" mode. This should do the following: 1. find the article text. 2. Download additional pages of the text.

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
Marlaina, the easiest way to deal with all of that is to simply select all on the page, plop it in a TextEdit document, and then manipulate it from there. Not pretty, but it works just fine. Teresa On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Mike or others, > > One problem I have wi

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Cohn
If you are reading articles from blogs or Newspapers, then command-shift-R will put you in "Reader" mode. This should do the following: 1. find the article text. 2. Download additional pages of the text. I do find that sometimes the reader mode stumbles on multipage articles and I end up using V

Re: safari questions

2010-12-16 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Mike or others, One problem I have with surfing the web on the Mac is that I can't copy and paste consistently from websites. I mean that since it moves by item and not by line, I have a hard time copying the text of an item. I also wonder if there is an easier way to read the text within an

Re: safari questions

2010-12-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
Actually, once you get used to it, it works much better than the windows screen readers. It moves by item rather than by line, I find surfing the web on the mac to be a very enjoyable experience. On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:24 PM, denise avant wrote: > hello all, > after being an internet explorer use

Re: safari questions

2010-12-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can use VO-command-n to move to the next web spot or use the web rotor and find web spots. Teresa On Dec 14, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Deniese: > Probably the quickest way I've found is to invoke the web roter with VO-u, > and look for headers or links. Or, do Vo-f and loo

Re: safari questions

2010-12-14 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Deniese: Probably the quickest way I've found is to invoke the web roter with VO-u, and look for headers or links. Or, do Vo-f and look for the first couple words in your title. Beyond this, I'm still trying to find a better answer. A third thing you can try is Vo-i for item chooser. Then

Re: safari questions

2010-05-28 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
a -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Maxwell Ivey Jr. Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:51 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: safari questions Hello; As i understand it the results depend more o

RE: safari questions

2010-05-28 Thread Linda Adams
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:51 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: safari questions Hello; As i understand it the results depend more on what the creater of the website did than it is safari's doing. some sites it will bring me back to the same spot, but others it

Re: safari questions

2010-05-27 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; As i understand it the results depend more on what the creater of the website did than it is safari's doing. some sites it will bring me back to the same spot, but others it returns me to the top of the previous page. for this reason I use command enter to open the link as a new p