So, how do you skip all that? I
don't use GMail on the Internet except to look at the spam
filter now and then. I am not familiar with the supplied
short cuts. But any time you want to jump from message to
message, typing x in browse mode takes you to the check box
for the next message. You hear, as I recall, the subject line
and the name of the sender.
But there are ways of skipping
unwanted material and the fact that they are not well known
indicates poor training or poor training materials being
widely used.
The find command is one of the
most useful but under or unused feature. What is the last
consistent line before the message text, or the synopsis,
begins? Find it by looking from the check box down on more
than one message. You will see a pattern.
Do a search for that line and you
can then do the following:
x to move to the next message.
Repeat search, you have already
searched once by entering the search string, then down arrow
once and read to end.
After you do this enough to have
it become second nature, it will be reasonably fast and
efficient.
You can't be a good Internet user
in more complex areas of a web page if you rely on what I
refer to as "the kindness of strangers.", as is famously said
by a character in A Street Car Named Desire.
The number of blind people, even
those who are generally good computer users, who don't know
how to do what I'm describing is clear evidence of the
inadequate and poor training received.
I don't use web applications
enough to discuss the general questions presented here, but
GMail isn't a web application in the sense that Google Docx
(spelling) is. It is a layout but you aren't working with an
application embedded in the page.
And you will see lots of times
when doing things such as I describe is important for
efficient navigation.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2019 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Are web applications that
accessible?
On no, it says “Reply, reply all, forward…” all that, even if you
use the keyboard commands to move to the next or previous message.
> On Oct 7, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Hope Williamson <hopeisjoyful@...>
wrote:
>
> There's no reason to leave out normal header information. In
other words, the sender, date, time, and the fact that it's from
you. If it's like the IP you're referring to, then that's
different.
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