[nfbcs] Browsing tree of comments

[Tony Malykh]

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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