Re: [orca-list] Website layouts and orca



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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