Voiceover cursor following mouse cursor flips me randomly down webpage
But after going from Leopard to Snow Leopard a couple weeks back, I have to ask ... did Apple break Voiceover on Safari?
Specifically, when I have VO on in Safari, I want it to read what's under the mouse cursor. Turned that on. I like going to Reddit and moving the cursor (giant pointer) over only the link titles to have them read to me. In Leopard, that's all that would be read, despite there being a thousand other little links throughout the page I wasn't concerned with VO locking on. Just the facts. Worked perfectly for 4 years.
Unfortunately with Snow Leopard, it's treating every single thing on the page as if I want to read it. I could live with that, but a side effect of this extreme over-reaction is that sometimes when I move my mouse cursor from link to link, VO thinks I want to flip down the webpage to a random position below, making me lose my place almost constantly. When I dry to scroll back up the page to whatever link I was reading, it fights me and flips back down.
I have turned on and off every single VO option in infinite combinations and cannot get VO to stop warping me down a page of links.
Is this a glitch? I don't want to use the Rotor to cycle through the thousands of unimportant links on my Reddit homepage just to read the 100 links that I can already see normally but can't get VO to stay on.
Please help, as having links read to me saves my tired eyes.
Being nonsensically warped hither and yon up and down a webpage so that I constantly lose my orientation on a simple list is nerve-wracking.
Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)