Is it possible to select an image in Firefox or Chrome?

With IE you say "image" and it places numerals/selections next to every visible or click-able image; but what about Firefox or Chrome?

highland99,

No, "click image" doesn't work in either Firefox or Chrome. I'm not sure what you can do about Chrome, but in Firefox you can use mouseless browsing.

The bottom line is that clicking images only works in Internet Explorer. However, don't blame Nuance or Dragon. The blame rests entirely and squarely on the Firefox and Chrome developers. They screwed it up.

Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC
Home of VoicePower®: We don't make Dragon NaturallySpeaking, we make it better!

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Thanks Chuck.

You can get to images and other links by voice using the following information:

http://www.knowbrainer.com/PubForum/index.cfm?page=viewForumTopic&topicId=12843&listFull#4447DF72-D800-C4CF-57D78C7EFC7thread67655

Lindsay

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Thanks for this info!

 

The only thing that's a little bit frustrating about this extension is that you have to hit the Alt + G keyboard combination every time you switch to a new webpage. Click on a link and all of the numerals disappear until you once again hit the keyboard combination, at least in relation to what I'm presently experiencing. There seems to be no way to keep the numerals on the screen at all times… Is there?

 

Thanks again!

As I can't press the keyboard I have to do it by voice, with Professional I have just added an application-specific command for Chrome called "ShowNumbers" that sends the Alt+g key combination.  With Premium you could use KnowBrainer or something like Vocola to do this and then choose your own choice of command name.  Alternatively you can just say "press alt key golf" when you want the numbers to appear in Chrome.

Once the numbers are on the screen you can actually spell the numbers by voice to choose a link, so for example you could say "spell seven eight" to click on link 78.

I know of no way to keep the numbers on the screen when you change page so I have to say "ShowNumbers" again, mind you I don't know a way of doing this (without writing a script) with Internet Explorer built-in Dragon commands although with mouseless browsing with Firefox it does actually keep the numbers on the screen even after changing page, again this can be driven purely by voice.  That is not to say there is no way of doing it with Chrome.

Lindsay

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www.pcbyvoice.com
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Another option that I just found out about is using a virtual keyboard.

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Thanks for this follow-up info Lindsay! Much appreciated.

Interesting, MDH...