Re: [orca-list] Tips and tricks for Orca and Firefox

[Mewtamer <mewtamer gmail com>]

Personally, YouTube isn't the most screen reader friendly website out
there. Lots of extraneous buttons that make getting to the controls of
the active video harder than it should be, comments are a mess with
lots of hidden text and lots of controls that are hard to skip for
seamless reading, there's a trick to even locating the comments
section of a video page... and at least on my system, even with
YouTube videos at 100%, I have to bump up my system volume to the
point Orca is screaming my ears to hear most videos.

That said, some tips for making the most of YouTube's not very
accessible interface:

On a video page, the title is a level 1 heading, cthe comments start
with a level 2 heading, and the links to suggested videos are level 3
headings. When Orca is in browse mode, pressing the h key will jump to
the next heading indiscriminately, and using the number row 1-6 will
jump to headings at specific levels. Like with other Orca navigational
hotkeys, you can use shift+ the hotkey to jump backwards and
alt+shift+hotkey to bring up a list of elements of the given type.

The video controls on a YouTube video page are right above the Level 1
heading with the Video's title and the controls for favoriting, adding
to personal playlists, and information on the video are below this
heading. If you press b on the keyboard when you first load a video
page, sometimes this will put focus on the play button, but sometimes
there will be several buttons from YouTube's top navigation to cycle
through first. From the play button, shitf+tab will bring you to the
progress slider and then the skip add button when available and
tabbing will bring you to the next button and then the volume slider.
There are other controls, but these are the ones I use most.

In addition to H for headings, 1-6 on the number row for specific
level headings, and b for buttons, some other navigational hotkeys I
find useful include:

A for JavaScript clickables(alt+shift+a to bring up the list of all
such elements is particularly useful here since these often don't
respond to keyboard input and selecting one from the list and tabbing
a few times to the activate button is often the easiest way to
activate these controls)
C for comboboxes
e for text entry(note that you'll need to use Orca+a to switch to
focus mode if you actually want to type in one)
g for graphics
i for list items
l for lists
q for block quotes
r for radio buttons
s for separators
t for tables
x for check boxes.

I think k, u, and v also jump to links, unvisited links, and visited
links respectively, but I've never found them that useful.

Naturally, which, if any of the above navigational hotkeys are useful
varies greatly from site to site, though I find using h to cycle
through the headings is often a good first step when orienting myself
to an unfamiliar website.