[macvoiceover] Re: searching for text on a web page

  • From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 17:34:21 -0400

Hi,
I just realized that Mark's comments are not specifically about "forms mode" which is a component of the virtual buffer paradigm. The virtual buffer population code reorders things like the secretary in Mark's metaphor. Forms mode is simply the way a user interacts with a control on a web page in a virtual buffer. The virtual buffer way of doing the web was, back in 1999 when we (HJ) put it into JAWS 3.31 but, today, we've seen Apple and a few others, for the first time in a decade, really push the interface paradigm forward in a substantial manner.
So, with the vocabulary changed slightly, I think that Mark and I actually agree on this point. 

cdh
On Aug 1, 2009, at 2:18 PM, David Poehlman wrote:


correctamundo!

On Aug 1, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:
oxymoron--The problem with Forms mode is that it's an artificial overlay on a website; it's, in effect, a padding between the blind user and the real VR world (oxymoron intended :) ). Interaction is more like squinting to read fine print, while forms mode strikes me as being like an overbearing secretary who comes in and shuffles your papers into the order he/she thinks you might like them in. 


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