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From: James Jolley on 8 Jun 2010 06:51 I'm pleased to announce that there are some serious accessibility improvements within Safari 5, and long may this continue: 1. VoiceOver is no longer sluggish when closeing a tab, when there are many open. Previously, "busy" would be often announced and it would take time to sort itself and allow the navigation around the newly focused page. This seems, at least, to have gone. Further testing will be needed, but I do have 10 tabs open at this time and nothing's showing me any problem right now. 2. Topsites, whatever they are, work now. At least, the ability to select one from the list and clikc/go seems to work. Editing them doesn't, or i'm not used to it's interface. Previously, these weren't available at all. I'm assuming it's some sort of "these are the places you like the most" type idea but how does it determine this? 3. The reader. Seems to work as expected.. It's just restructured HTML by the looks of it anyway, so i'd not expect there to be a problem with navigation. What happens on multiple articles? Are they on they're own page, or indicated via headings? If they use headings for this, navigation gets another gold star then as VoiceOver naturally has navigation keys to move to next/prior heading. One final note, there is some double speaking in the preferences, where the item to the left of the control name is announced. Taken from the security section of preferences, "Warn when visiting a fraudulent website Fraudulent sites: checked check box". I'm sure this is a colour detection issue perhaps, but this isn't an issue for usability, just an oddity with those controls. I'm also assuming that 10.6.4 will fix this, I wasn't in on that update. Anyway, just a quick rundown. Best -James-
From: Chris Ridd on 8 Jun 2010 09:02 On 2010-06-08 11:51:31 +0100, James Jolley said: > 2. Topsites, whatever they are, work now. At least, the ability to > select one from the list and clikc/go seems to work. Editing them > doesn't, or i'm not used to it's interface. Previously, these weren't > available at all. I'm assuming it's some sort of "these are the places > you like the most" type idea but how does it determine this? It remembers the sites you visit, and creates the display according to popularity. You can also go into edit mode by clicking the screen's "Edit" button in the bottom left. If you have a "top-site" selected in the window, pressing tab will go to the Edit button. Tab again will go to the search history field. In edit mode you can remove sites (there's an X button on each site) and fix sites into the list (there's a drawing pin button on each site) to customize the list that is shown. There's a Done button reachable in the same way as the edit button, which leaves edit mode. > Anyway, just a quick rundown. Useful to know, thanks for posting. -- Chris
From: James Jolley on 8 Jun 2010 09:07 On 2010-06-08 14:02:02 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > On 2010-06-08 11:51:31 +0100, James Jolley said: > >> 2. Topsites, whatever they are, work now. At least, the ability to >> select one from the list and clikc/go seems to work. Editing them >> doesn't, or i'm not used to it's interface. Previously, these weren't >> available at all. I'm assuming it's some sort of "these are the places >> you like the most" type idea but how does it determine this? > > It remembers the sites you visit, and creates the display according to > popularity. You can also go into edit mode by clicking the screen's > "Edit" button in the bottom left. > > If you have a "top-site" selected in the window, pressing tab will go > to the Edit button. Tab again will go to the search history field. > > In edit mode you can remove sites (there's an X button on each site) > and fix sites into the list (there's a drawing pin button on each site) > to customize the list that is shown. > > There's a Done button reachable in the same way as the edit button, > which leaves edit mode. > >> Anyway, just a quick rundown. > > Useful to know, thanks for posting. Thanks for the interface advice. Will go and have a try at it now then. It seems a good idea. The reader is the best thing to happen to the visually impaired internet user in years by the way, a quick Command Shift R on anything with lots of ads and other stuff works wonders. I put this in the same league as braille to be honest, to have news in accessible form that can be pasted into other documents minus the clutter is superb. Best -James-
From: Chris Ridd on 8 Jun 2010 09:11 On 2010-06-08 14:07:31 +0100, James Jolley said: > The reader is the best thing to happen to the visually impaired > internet user in years by the way, a quick Command Shift R on anything > with lots of ads and other stuff works wonders. I put this in the same > league as braille to be honest, to have news in accessible form that > can be pasted into other documents minus the clutter is superb. What allows the reader mode button to appear? -- Chris
From: James Jolley on 8 Jun 2010 10:10
On 2010-06-08 14:11:07 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > On 2010-06-08 14:07:31 +0100, James Jolley said: > >> The reader is the best thing to happen to the visually impaired >> internet user in years by the way, a quick Command Shift R on anything >> with lots of ads and other stuff works wonders. I put this in the same >> league as braille to be honest, to have news in accessible form that >> can be pasted into other documents minus the clutter is superb. > > What allows the reader mode button to appear? In my case, I just go to any news site, open an article, then press Command Shift R. |