[gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm

[Wayne Merritt]

I think he meant just semicolon to move between landmarks, and shift
semi to move backward. I've seen them along with headings, like a
landmark and then the heading on the next line, but I suppose the
landmark could appear by itself without a heading. Hopefully we'll
start seeign more of them out on the WWW soon.

Wayne

On 1/8/10, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Dean,
>
> you really mean key combo z semicolon and z colon? I just want to be sure
> I've got you right.
>
> I'm curious to see what sorts of page areas or elements these landmarks tend
> to mark. It's not very clear to me, yet, what their purpose may be.for
> instance, are they meant to complement or replace headings? Or?the
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Martineau" <dean at topdotenterprises.com>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm
>
>
> It's up to the author of the web page to use landmarks or not.  If they are
> used on the page, use z semicolon and colon with JAWS to navigate among
> them.  Bookshare uses them.
>
> Dean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerardo Corripio
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:50 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm
>
> Don't worry; someone who can confirm our supositions will answer soon
> enough.
> Gerardo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm
>
>
> Well, I'd like to imagine something like that, too. But this doesn't
> actually answer my question. Must I resubscribe to the JFW list, or take
> time reading through the Jaws 11 documentation?
>
> Sigh...
> call
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerardo Corripio" <gera1027 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm
>
>
> I'd like to imagine that landmarks are spots on a webpage one can go to; I'd
> also like to suppose that these landmarks are like MacOS 's web autospots.
> Gerardo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:31 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] What are landmarks??landarm
>
>
> I'm running the latest build of Jaws 11. When loadeing a Web page, Jaws used
> to say only how many links there were on the page and announce if there was
> an RSS feed. At least I think that's all it said before the page was ready
> to be navigated.
>
> Now to that list of announcements, its says how many landmarks there are.
> What's a landmark? What am I expected to do with them if I wish to do
> something, and how?
>
> thanks,
> Joel
> ful
>
>
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