Hi Estrelita, Since you said you have an iMac, you may find it easier to use NumPad Commander key sequences. This is basically a way of using the number pad on a full keyboard to pre-define some key sequence combinations and bind them to the number pad keys.
For example, turn this feature on by pressing Control-Option-F8 to open the VoiceOver Utility and then select NumPad in the Category Table. Select the enable NumPad Commander checkbox (press Control-Option-Space to check the box and turn on NumPad Commander). Type Command-W to quite the VoiceOver Utiltiy Window. Now you can use the Number Pad "Plus" key to start interacting with an item and the Number Pad "Minus" key to stop interacting with an item. You can also customize the Number Pad so that instead of these defaults, you can assign other key combinations to the Number Pad intead of holding down these sets of keys. I'm not using Leopard, and I have a laptop (no number pad), so someone else can probably give you better instructions. This is another alternative to locking the VoiceOver keys with the Command-Option-semi-colon sequence Chelsea suggested. Generally, I only lock the VoiceOver keys when I'm reading through a long document with only navigation keys in use. After all, in most instances you'll have to unlock the VoiceOver keys (by pressing the semi-colon key again) to enter other commands. HTH Cheers, Esther P.S. On a laptop I just hold down the shift key with my left ring finger, the control key with my middle left finger, and the option key with my left forefinger (using my left hand). I press the down arrow key (or up arrow key) with the center finger of my right hand. This is actually fairly easy for me to do to start or stop interacting. On June 08, 2008, at 12:59PM, Chelsea wrote: >Hi, you can press VO keys plus ; and the VO keys will be locked so >that you don't have to hold them down. >On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Estelita wrote: > >> Hi, >> Any suggestion please on how to set the vo sticky keys? >> Like for instance in interacting command, we have to press down the >> option >> key, ctrl key and shift key together while pressing the up or down >> arrow, >> which is very difficult to do. >> If the sticky key is set, then we only have one or two keys to press >> to do >> in some operation. >> Thank you. >> >> Estelita >>
