I'm a new Voiceover user and I'm having a problem in the Youtube web site on my Mac.
When viewing a video, an area appears to the right of the main area where the video is playing (far right of screen). This area contains related videos to the one being watched and also videos that might be of interest to the user.
The problem is that I cannot navigate to this area using Voiceover. Can anyone tell me how to access this area using Voiceover?
Comments
I'll try
If you go by heading, either by flicking down on the track pad, or voice over U, and use headings, it should say something like, if you were watching someone cut something with a chainsaw, bigger log chainsaw cut, or other weird examples. sorry jusrt woke up. The idea here is, heading level one is the description and stuff, the next one would be comments, the next heading level three is the related videos. Sorry if I confused you. I'll write a more coherent one when I am more together.
Item chooser
Just before that list of videos on the right, there's a series of tabs that control what is shown in that list. One of the tabs is called "for you".
Press VO+I to open the Item Chooser menu. Start to type "for you" until the menu shrinks to that one item. Down arrow once and press return. This puts your focus on the "for you" tab control. Then, VO+Right arrow past two or three other elements, and that brings you to that list of videos.
Instead of using "for you" as a landmark, there's also a "next" button. You can get to that the same way, but using the VO+U web rotor forms control menu. Another difference is that "next" is pretty common, so there might be more than one next button. You must make sure you select the right one from the web rotor. That's why I recommended the Item Chooser and the "for you" tab as a landmark. "For you" is usually unique.
Thank you
I don't think I'd have ever got that myself. Thank you.
I'm not a mac user but.
control tab is meant to move you through tabs, but I think that's more like the windows you have open on a browser and not the tabs on a page.
I looked it up and unlike with NVDA there doesnt seam to be a quick way of jumping to the next tab on a page. Perhaps you could report it to apple, I find the command to be very useful on youtube, it's y if you're interested.
Re: Item Chooser
It will work until YouTube redesigns their web page, new and improved, and removes all the little landmarks that we depend on.
re: item chooser.
Oh of course, they're always changing things. So far it's been ok but sometimes I find the comments are at the bottom, othre times they're in the middle of the page.
At the moment I've not got the thing where there's a search button you have to press enter on, then press enter on search, but it could come back at any time.
For those wondering, this used to be a thing I had to deal with with Firefox. It's not that way anymore and yes it was frustrating.
Hi, I am also facing issues…
Hi,
I am also facing issues navigating on YouTube on Mac with VoiceOver. As soon as I land on the YouTube page, the VoiceOver announcing 'verify verify; verify', and continues for about 30 secs before I can actually navigate through links or headings.
Please suggest.
Thanks,
Disable live regions
To stop Youtube's superfluous "Verified" announcements, open VoiceOver Utility > Web > Navigation, and deselect the "Enable live regions" checkbox. Alternatively, you can create an activity so that live regions are disabled for Youtube, but remain enabled on other websites.
HTH