[macvoiceover] Re: Moderation from the admin

  • From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:56:08 -0500

Hi Josh
The issue in question is only present in the Webkit nightly builds. Standard Safari will expose title attributes for images and buttons only, whereas the nightly builds expose title attributes on all controls that have them. This is one of the main reasons I still use standard Safari for most pages.


On Feb 7, 2009, at 13:52, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:


I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard, the latest version, with Safari 3.1.2. I am not using any of the Webkit nightly builds, just the standard install of Safari/Webkit. HOwever, I just ran Software Update and have discovered that there's a newer version of Safari, V3.2.1. So it might be that this is a very recent bug in Webkit, not necessarily a design choice. I'm installing the update now and will report back. The site you provided works as expected on the set up described above.

Josh de Lioncourt

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On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:28 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

Good afternoon,

What version of webkit / OS X are you using? There is most certainly a link spoken as Welcome when I visit the site, and wen I use VO + L it reads Home instead.

Thanks,
Everett


On 7-Feb-09, at 11:02 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:


On the site you provided, there is no link that is read as "Welcome." There is a link that is read as "Home" however, which is what you say you wanted. There is a heading which reads "Welcome," however.

I have never seen an occasion where VO doesn't read the link text. The title text, from what I've seen, is usually spoken for image text. Your example works as one would expect. Can you provide a link where this problem is occurring?

Josh de Lioncourt

...my other mail provider is an owl...



On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:15 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:

Good evening Keith,

Control - Option - Shift - U reads the URL for the link (the href attribute of the anchor tag). I would like to know what the linked text is, the text that comes between the opening and closing anchor tags.

For example, on http://iavit.org there is a link that VO reads as "Welcome", however, the visible text is "Home".

Thanks,
Everett




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