Re: [orca-list] Website layouts and orca

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

There are times I definitely like the way Orca presents the layout of
web pages. In Google Calendar for example, when I'm looking at the list
of attendees for a meeting, I can tell which buttons and links are
associated with each attendee by using flat review. At other times, it's
made reading a page a challenge, such as when the text of an article is
in one column of a table and links to other articles runs down the side
of a page in another column. Maybe I just need to learn how to navigate
HTML tables in Orca better.

BTW, I must be mistaken, but I thought NVDA presented web pages in a
fashion similar to Orca. I've seen others mention that it doesn't
though, and I haven't used NVDA on the web much, so I just must be mistaken.

On 21/06/11 13:56, Andy B. wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am sort of confused. I do web development for a living. I recently
> migrated to ubuntu permanently because of a Windows crash that wiped my
> drive out totally. I am used to the way that JAWS, WE, NVDA and all of
> the other types of windows based screen readers lay out the pages
> virtual buffer. In this case, by default they are set to display a
> single element on a line by itself. Examples are individual links, table
> columns flash players, headings and so on.
>
> It looks like orca lays it out just like a sighted person were to see
> it. The problem is that it gets very confusing to find/get to different
> places on the page and it is hard to understand the layout of the page
> itself. An example is in drupal 7. When signed in as super user (user1),
> and looking at the homepage of a stock install, it looks like you have
> headings on the left side of the screen and links on the right side of
> the screen that are somehow related to the headings on the left. Like I
> said, I am used to being fed a page with individual elements on a line
> by itself. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get over this and be
> able to get around on pages just as fast?
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com