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handsfree2010-10-21 02:31 pm
jadelennox) wrote in handsfree2010-10-21 02:31 pm
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Blur: nifty trick I figured out with mouseless browsing
I was fiddling around with the options for the Firefox mouseless browsing add-on (which I adore, by the way; it attaches typeable or dictateable numbers to every selectable link on a webpage, and to every Firefox tab), and discovered a nifty trick. You can make a key binding for "blur". Now, back before I started doing JavaScript coding for dreamwidth, I had no idea what "blur" means, but now I know that it means "leave the currently selected element).
My biggest frustration for years with mouseless browsing has been that if I am in some kind of form field-- this dreamwidth post entry form, for example -- dictating any of the numbers for a form means that I am just typing into the form field. But now that I've discovered this option, all that has changed! I made a mouseless browsing keyboard binding for "blur active element" (I chose control + alt + shift + B), and then a meeting NaturallySpeaking macro that, in Firefox, attached is that key binding to the word "blur". Now, if I'm in a form field, all I have to do is dictate "blur", and the selection leaves the form and lets me dictate numbers again!
Still doesn't work for flash, sadly. Once I am in the controls of the Flash element the only way to get out of it is to use the mousegrade. But still, it's a huge win.
My biggest frustration for years with mouseless browsing has been that if I am in some kind of form field-- this dreamwidth post entry form, for example -- dictating any of the numbers for a form means that I am just typing into the form field. But now that I've discovered this option, all that has changed! I made a mouseless browsing keyboard binding for "blur active element" (I chose control + alt + shift + B), and then a meeting NaturallySpeaking macro that, in Firefox, attached is that key binding to the word "blur". Now, if I'm in a form field, all I have to do is dictate "blur", and the selection leaves the form and lets me dictate numbers again!
Still doesn't work for flash, sadly. Once I am in the controls of the Flash element the only way to get out of it is to use the mousegrade. But still, it's a huge win.