hey criss, will have a play with this. there needs to be a way for VO users to work with these extra options. On 29 Jan 2014, at 1:45 pm, Christopher gilland <ch...@clgproductions.com> wrote:
> I don't think that's what he meant. Your Voiceover keys are control and > option. So if you're already holding them down to navigate, then how are you > supposed to get to those extra options which would require you to hold the > option key down while hovering your mouse over the key. The only way that > I've found to get this to work is to open up the menu, vo+down arrow to the > option which needs to be changed over, then route your mouse with > vo+command+F5, then hit your option key while clicking your physical mouse or > trackpad. the only issue with this however is beware, there really isn't, at > least that I know of, a reliable way to see what the options turn to when > holding down the option key since you can't navigate effectively with > voiceover while the Option key is held down. Again, I know. You already > are! holding down your option key with your voiceover keys. that's my whole > point. If you're holding down the control and option keys already, then you > don't have a way of specifying to change to the alt option. Ya know? So, yeah, it's probably not the most effective way to do things, however, that said, I have found times, very few and far between, but still, I have seen times where I didn't have a choice, and that's how I got around it. Again, not probably the answer you wanted, I'm sure, but it's what I got. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Gregory" <joshkar...@gmail.com> > To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:30 PM > Subject: Re: question about extra options in menus when pressing the option > key > > >> You work with these the same way you do normal menus, when an option comes >> up that you want, press VO+Space to activith such options. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> hey all, >>> i have a quick question for you all. >>> i was playing in the view menu of finder sitting on the arrange by sub menu >>> and i found that when i hit the option key the sub menu changed to say sort >>> by. >>> how do VO users work with this? because you have to keep holding the option >>> key down to see the new options that come up. how do you enter these menus >>> to work with the new options? >>> thanks for any help >>> >>> Michael >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure >>> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >>> worm-free. 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