[nfbcs] Browsing tree of comments

[Jim Bauer]

What browser are you using? If you know some Javascript--and/or just want a new project--you might look into using a "user script manager" (such as Greasemonkey for Firefox) to customize comment display on the page.

On 9/4/2017 6:52 PM, Tony Malykh via nfbcs wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't help in my case, since in the
> touch-cursor mode all the comments are shown as if they are all in a
> huge table (200+ rows) and I couldn't find any information about their
> level. That's an interesting new way for me to browse web though.
>
> Is there a way in jaws to speak the CSS style of the current text
> item? I suspect the CSS style might reflect the level of the comment.
> Or maybe there is a way for jaws to speak the distance from the left
> side of the browser window to the beginning of the text (offset)?
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> On 9/2/17, Doug Lee via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> This is a somewhat involved solution but it might work:
>>
>> 1. Enable the JAWS touch cursor with Shift+NumPadPlus, or the laptop layout
>> equivalent, Shift+CapLock+Semicolon.
>>
>> 2. Toggle Advanced Navigation mode on using NumPad Star (the
>> RightMouseButton key).
>>
>> 3. Use the four arrows to navigate the page structurally and see if you can
>> find what you want that way.
>>
>> You can turn advanced navigation mode off again with the same key you used
>> to turn it on, and disable the touch cursor by pressing the PC
>> Cursor command twice, be it NumPad Plus or the laptop command,
>> CapLock+Semicolon.
>>
>> There is also a text review mode for controls containing a lot of text: Turn
>> that on with NumPad Slash (the LeftMouseButton key) and off with Esc.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 05:56:19PM -0700, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Many websites have tree-like structure of comments left by people. For
>> example, reddit, hacker news, and probably a lot more websites are
>> like this. Sometimes I would like to read some comments, but for
>> example I would like to read only the top-level comments, and not the
>> deeper levels, because that would be the replies to the top-level
>> comments, and they are typically not as interesting. Is there any way
>> to achieve this with a screen reader?
>>
>> So, for example, I would like to have a key combination to jump to the
>> next same level comment. Right now I can only jump to the next comment
>> of any level by searching a keyword ("up vote" or something, that
>> appears next to every comment), and then I'd have to deduce in my mind
>> what level comment is this. It is very tedious and not very pleasant.
>>
>> Another way that might help me would be to figure out the level of the
>> current comment. At least I'd be able to move down through the
>> comments without reading them and without trying to deduce its level
>> from the contents.
>>
>> I'm using Jaws 17 and IE or Firefox.
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated!
>> Tony
>>
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