Hello there. I apologize for coming in here so late but I was at work. The best way to find podcasts on the apple vis website is to either go right to the podcasts link or do a search for the topic you want information on. It is very easy to navigate. On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Eleanor Burke <eleanorbu...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Sound David, I will absorb all you say and need to look for that podcast on > Quick Nav, if anyone has a link please do send to the list. > > eleanor > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" > <d.griff...@btinternet.com> > To: "'OS X & iOS Accessibility'" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:18 PM > Subject: RE: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air > > >> Generally on the Mac you press VO Space on an element to confirm, or if >> using quick nav both up and down keys together. >> Enter will sometimes work as does the spacebar but not always or vice versa >> with some programs. >> >> However if Voiceover is saying you need to restart the likelihood is that >> the updates have been applied and pressing enter has worked in this case. >> >> I would suggest that on a mac air some time studying Quick Nav would make >> life easier for you. This would avoid having to use commands like vo right >> and left arrow and you can instead use the arrow cursor keys by themselves >> and as I say up and down arrow together instead of vo spacebar. After a >> while pressing up and down arrow together feels like pressing enter on >> Windows anyway. >> >> I think you have a Bluetooth keyboard with an IOS device from memory so the >> key shortcuts you would have learnt there should largely also work on your >> Mac Air. >> There should be a Podcast on Quick Nav in the David Woodbridge collection >> somewhere. >> >> David Griffith >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net >> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke >> Sent: 30 January 2014 14:33 >> To: OS X & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air >> >> Thanks Matthew, now I have the keyboard and soft keys sorted, I wonder if >> you can tell me how do I do an update. I am told there are 2 updates >> available but I do not know how to accept to update. I tried pressing enter >> >> and it did not do anything then I tried moving about again and then voice >> over was saying that I needed to restart after updates so I wondered if the >> updates had actually been done. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Carello" <mcarell...@comcast.net> >> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:52 AM >> Subject: Re: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air >> >> >>> Hello Eleanor. Go into preferences in the apple menu. Choose the keyboard >>> button. When in there select the keyboard tab and go over to where it says >> >>> use all f1,f2, etc as as standard function keys.checkbox and check it. if >> >>> it is unchecked it just means that you have to use the function key to the >> >>> left of the control key to do the secondary operations for the function >>> keys. When it is checked you use the function key to use the function keys >> >>> for the operations that are shown on the keys themselves. Hope this helps. >>> On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Eleanor Burke <eleanorbu...@btinternet.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> My friend told me that I have to turn my hardware keys to software keys >>>> on my new Mac Book Air. How do I do this? If I do it can it be >>>> reversed? She has a Mac but has forgotten how it is done! 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