On Apr 14, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Speaking of useless and redundant key commands, how do the folks
who say that JAWS alone has redundant key commands explain the two
menu commands on the mac. vo m, and ctrl f2. What is the point of
the vo commands here? Or vo m twice for the status bar. Why not
just use ctrl f8?
Actually, I completely followed this line of thinking, as some might
remember me posting on it a year or so ago. However, I now believe
these commands, despite their apparent redundency, are actually
important. This only comes into play on MacBook keyboards, however.
I've found that while using a MacBook, Control+F2 is considerably
more cumbersome than on a traditional Mac desktop keyboard, due in
part to the single control key on the MacBook. Having the VO+M key
all but directly under your fingertips improves productivity quite a
bit on this platform, IMO. I still use the traditional Control+F2
and Control+F8 keys on my Mac Mini, however, as overall I prefer
them, and old habbits die hard.
