Re: MacOS Accessibility Questions
Re: MacOS Accessibility Questions
- Subject: Re: MacOS Accessibility Questions
- From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:42:23 +0000
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
Hi,
Thanks for the answer, this makes a little more sense so continuing this
so how should it work if you have items which are embedded in other controls
e.g. Large amount of text in a list box, or say options which are grouped
within a group box.
Thanks
Mark.
> The item chooser menu provides a user with a list of all (accessible)
> elements in a window. It is intended to be a supplemental screen
> navigation technique. Sighted folks generally navigate a user
> interface by glancing around the screen, quickly identifying an
> element of interest, and then moving the mouse to it or tabbing until
> the focus loop moves to it. This technique is generally very efficient.
>
> Most VoiceOver users do not use vision to navigate. Instead they
> move from item to item using the VoiceOver cursor, and listen to a
> description of each item. Since moving from item to item can be more
> tedious, we introduced the Item Chooser Menu as an alternative. The
> user can press control-option-i to open the Item Chooser Menu. They
> can then arrow through each element, or more typically, they can type
> a few characters to narrow the list. Once the list is narrowed, they
> can arrow over one or two items that are similarly spelled to find
> what they are looking for. With practice, a user can significantly
> reduce the number of keystrokes necessary to move around.
>
> To navigate elements based on their screen location, simply use
> control+option+arrows.
>
> --E.
>
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