I believe there was a major update to Safari even if you are not running High
Sierra or Mohave at this point. I personally don't like Chrome and don't find
its accessibility as impressive as some seemed to do, but that might be because
of the websites in question.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
On Sep 23, 2018, at 4:08 PM, Leslie Stephens <leslie956@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi John,
I am viewing the website with Google Chrome. I find recent changes to many
websites are not compatible with Safari. The automatic drop down is most
annoying. and with VO verbosity at medium, it announces the number of nested
items , “end of list” and the level of each of the drop down items. I don’t
know whether eliminating the need to click the mouse to activate the items
makes that part of the app coding incompatible with mobile apps they have but
it certainly has made using VO more of a challenge. I have been successful
with dealing directly with tech support for the investment group i’m
currently working with . There are at least 5 other financial entities with
inaccessible websites I also have to deal with. Most frustrating when the
technology is there to allow the blind to be independent in this regard but
the desire to support that is not there.
On Sep 23, 2018, at 11:57 AM, John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I'm not sure why drop down menus would just be opening automatically. I
am not a web designer, so I can't speak with any knowledge as to ways that
might help deal with the situation. Are you running the latest updates on
your Mac and updated to Safari 12?
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com ;<http://www.macfortheblind.com/>
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
On Sep 22, 2018, at 8:31 PM, Leslie Stephens <leslie956@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:leslie956@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi List,
I encountered a website which made recent changes resulting in the
automatic opening of drop down window options when the VO cursor passes it.
With VO verbosity set at medium, each of these also voiced its level and
every “end of list”. I have contacted the investment company and they have
been very responsive to my issues. I think, though, this idea of having a
mouse hover activate drop down menus is not unique to them and we may all
see it on other websites. I just wonder if there is any other VO setting
which might make this new environment easier to live with other than
reducing VO verbosity to Low.
I have seen this behavior in amazon.com <http://amazon.com/>. When opening
an item page, it automatically expands the Review information in a window
which has to be closed to get to the item data. But one must press the
close button and immediately move the cursor to the right or the Review data
opens again. This, too, is the hover issue, I think.
I appreciate any suggestions.
Leslie
