[macvoiceover] Re: Facebook, Safari and Snow Leopard, tips please?

  • From: Olivia Norman <olivianorman@xxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:36:55 -0800

A guide would be great for this! I haven't had much luck with the full facebook 
site, it seems to hang and be constantly busy for one thing, and when I can get 
it to work, I don't have much success using it with VO.
These days, I use the mobile site and the iPhone app with pretty good success!
Olivia

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On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:

> I'm not having any problems, and have found a lot of really good shortcuts 
> for getting around the full site.  I don't want to be overbearing, because I 
> wouldn't have asked a question only to provide my own answer, but I wonder if 
> a comprehensive guide might be assembled.  For example, I use the Items 
> Chooser menu to go to the word "mind," which lands me right in the text box 
> to post to my wall, or for "status," to go to that section; for some odd 
> reason, when using VO right arrows to read through the page in linear 
> fashion, this whole section just does not get read; in fact, my VO cursor 
> seems to hang oh my own home link and won't move unless I move by headings, 
> and even then, the status section just get left behind.  One neat thing about 
> moving by headings is that all my friends' activities are under heading level 
> 6, so I can hit the main highlights of each by moving by headings, and using 
> arrows to read through the lists.  (SO many LISTS!!!)  A VO shift-space mouse 
> click will pick a thing out of a drop-down list.  I still cannot find this 
> "gear menu," that lets you throw sheep and poke people and so on; apparently 
> it's a pure graphic that VO just denies.  I suppose that's rather frivolous, 
> anyway; for the ost part, I've found work-arounds and wanted to compare.
> 
> 
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