Hi Esther, Thanks a lot for the information, you're brilliant! The vo tutorial I got is for tiger, got this before I bought my iMac, I was reading about it then decided to have one. 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 4:06 PM Subject: Re: sticky key setting > 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 ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
