[macvoiceover] Re: Mavericks is a coming,,,

  • From: Maria and Joe Chapman <bubbygirl1972@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:39:49 +1000

  HI.  I tend to use single letter navigation uite a bit but maybe that's 
because I come from a windows background.  It works as expected here.  Also not 
having any problems with mail.  I am also looking forward to ibooks being on 
the mac.


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On 19/09/2013, at 7:52 AM, Laura <laura.mcg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Totally agree about single letter navigation. I wanted it from almost the 
> moment I got a Mac, because I was sure it would make web browsing easier, but 
> now that we have it, I don't use it at all. Part of that is credit to apple 
> and how much I like the other navigation methods available, but some of it is 
> that it's just not worth the added hassle of extra interaction. I'd also like 
> quick search to work the way it used to in Lion. There it took you to 
> elements that started with a particular letter, and was really useful. In ML 
> it takes you to any element in which the given letter appears, and is far 
> less effective. 
> 
> On 18 Sep 2013, at 22:02, "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I know one thing I am looking forward to with Mavericks is iBooks on
>> the Mac. I'm not thrilled with some of the Mountain Lion behaviors
>> compared with Snow Leopard, although IU certainly do like that access
>> to the extras menu and the applications that live there. I have 8.5 and
>> I am finding mail is still acting not as smoothly as it did under SL.
>> I'd also like quicknav to be a lot more intelligent about single letter
>> nav than it currently is. Maybe they need to divorce single letter nav
>> from qn and in that way, perhaps it could be aware of when it should
>> and shouldn't be envoked, i.e. now it acts like Windows screen readers
>> of a couple years ago where you have to interact with controls like
>> edit boxes if you don't want single letters to take you places you
>> don't want to go. I hope they fix that in Mavericks. 
>> 
>> Mary
>> 
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