the reason for VO-m is that control-f2 will never get yo into the Mac
secondary menu or spotlight menu which is required for full access to
the OS. VO-m one take you to the main menu, VO-mm takes you to the
secondary menu and VO-mmm take you to the spotlight menu. command-f2
will take you only to the main menu but not the others.
Greg
On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:03 , Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
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.
