Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #9
24 January, 2008 @ 8:18 am by LioncourtAfter a break for the holidays, we’re back with Mac-cessibility Quick Tips, a weekly feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
Unlabeled or unidentifiable links getting you down? Want to check the destination URL of a link before you click it, just to make sure it is connecting to a reputable web site? In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, VoiceOver provides this functionality with a simple command available anywhere you can interact with HTML. VO-Shift-U will announce the URL to which a link is pointing. Such information can also provide enlightening information about links that are otherwise uninformative, where the web site developer has…ahem, forgotten…to label graphical links properly.
Until next time!
jcast wrote:
Thanks for the tip. As a new Mac/VoiceOver user having to familiarize himself with a bunch of new keystrokes/commands this is helpful. Can’t wait to check it out on those difficult sites.