Hi Estrelita, David has answered a number of points about using Numpad Commander. I can also point you to copies of the VoiceOver Getting Started documents for Leopard that Greg Kearney has made available in different formats:
http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books/vogs/ To download the audio formats or PDF instead of playing/displaying them in the Safari web browser, you'll need to first route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor with Control-Option-Command-F5 if you don't have cursor tracking set with "Mouse Cursor follows VoiceOver Cursor" checked under Navigation preferences in your VoiceOver Utility. (Start VoiceOver Utility with Control-Option-F8; select Navigation; use Command-Option-Space to check or uncheck any option boxes). With your Mouse cursor over the link to the PDF, MP3, or Audio Book file, press Control and "Click" to bring up the link menu options. If you have Numpad Commander activated, this means pressing the Control key and the "5" key of your Number Pad at the same time. Choose "Download linked file" and press enter to start the download. The Advanced Techniques section at the end of the manual describes how to customize you NumPad settings, but the default actions are (listed by key press and command action): 1 Moves to the last visible item Shift-1 Moves to the last item 2 Moves down 4 Moves left 5 Clicks the mouse 6 Moves right 7 Moves to the first visible item Shift-7 Moves to the first item 8 Moves up 9 Opens the Item Chooser menu Plus Starts interacting with an item Minus Stops interacting with an item Clear Moves to the Menu bar Period Escape 0-Equal Hear the window overview 0-5 Read the visible text The easy way to familiarize yourself with the keyboard is by turning on keyboard practice mode (Command-Option-K) and pressing key combinations to hear what VoiceOver reports. Use the Escape key to end keyboard practice mode. (You'll only hear commands announced so if you want to lock or unlock your VoiceOver keys you have to do this before or after you start keyboard practice mode.) Hope this helps. If I've made any mistakes, someone using Leopard and familiar with NumPad Commands may be able to catch them. Cheers, Esther On June 09, 2008, at 01:15AM, David Poehlman wrote: >in what instances can you not lock the vo keys? If you want to learn about >about numpad commander, you can press vokeys-question mark and type numpad >in the search field. you'll want to interact with the html but there is a >list of commands and their function. You can also look at the list of >commands and functions by opening the vo utility and focusing on the numpad >payne and then tab to the list. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Estelita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 4:23 AM >Subject: Re: sticky key setting > > >Hi Esther, >Your suggestion is brilliant! >Yeah I'm using Leopard in my iMac with full standard keyboard, but I have no >idea how to use the key pad to be honest. >I have vo tutorial, but never heard this bit. >I know how to lock the vo keys, but not at all time that it allows me to do >so. >I mean locking the vo keys doesn't work in some applications. >Best regards, > >Estelita > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:35 AM >Subject: Re: sticky key setting > > >> 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. >>
