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From: mhysnm1964@gmail.com
Date: Nov 4, 2018 11:18PM

Jonathan

Thanks for this, I will do a search on WebAim again to see if I can find it.

I do see pro's and con's for it. The windows model doesn't require you to
interact with the object to move down the underlying tree structure. While
Mac you have too. Performance in moving around the screen can be slower as
you can see duplicated information on the windows platform. I do not see
this as Much on the Mac. You still do not get relationship information such
as this object is at the top of the screen left side. This concept can be
done easily enough as the information is in the accessibility tree. It is
helpful in my view for someone who uses a screen reader, but is going to be
for a small group of users.


ChromeVox seemed to have a hybrid between a virtual buffer and object
navigation which again is good and bad.

Cheers
Sean






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Jonathan Avila
Sent: Monday, 5 November 2018 8:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Object Navigation by a screen reader

Hi Sean, there was a discussion about this maybe a year or so ago with talk
of Edge and slowness of the browse/virtual cursor and talk about the end of
these methods of access in browsers generally. I expressed my concern
about the virtual/browse cursor going away -- I believe it is a very
efficient way of navigating and it provides some things and ease of use that
can't be done with object navigation. For example, moving from word,
letter, line in one object into another, etc. without having to worry about
switching objects. I haven't heard much about this lately so I hope the
issues or concerns have been addressed.

Jonathan


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Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 1:03 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Object Navigation by a screen reader

All,



I saw a post here a while ago on a new train of thought for screen readers
to navigate the web page by objects similar to what Voice-Over does. Does
anyone have any information on this that I can read to see how or why this
is the new thinking?



As I have some concerns and want to read up before sharing to ensure I am on
the right thinking.





Sean

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