Hi Pam, The Take Control series of books are really good reads. They cover a wide range of topics and you can't go wrong with those books.
The results for spotlight now appear to show in a table. You can use table navigation to read them. However, what I tend to do is use more specific commands for searching for specific items. For example, I just did a search for documents that have the word, dog, in them. dog kind: documents If I VO-right arrow, I am presented with a table. The table has the results of all of my documents that have the word, dog, in them. You can use things like the Beetles kind: mp3 the Beetles kind: audio The word, kind, has the colon after it and then a space with documents, audio, mp3, pdf, etc. This designates the type of item you are searching for. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:57 AM, Pamela Francis <gypsykitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi John, > I've heard a lot of good things about the take control series. If you cancer, > please explain why the arrow key functionality within spotlight was taken > away. As far as search criteria, if I enter a file name, or name of an artist > within spotlight, I get everything but either of what I'm looking for. I > don't understand what you mean by simple searches. I thought entering the > proper file name or song name constituted a simple search. What am I missing? > Please explain. > Thanks much. > > Pam Francis > > On Oct 20, 2014, at 6:24 PM, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually, this was another feature that was focused on during the beta > cycle. Realistically, Spotlight is designed to give more functionality to > simple searches. It is not a matter of using the arrow keys any longer. > Information is presented in table format based on the results. Remember that > you can use ways to phrase your search criterion to make Spotlight more > effective. If you depend on Spotlight, I highly recommend the Take Control > of Spotlight for Finding Anything on Your Mac. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain > Lion > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Pamela Francis <gypsykitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one having this issue. Jim, do you also >> here something to the effect of either button or image? When I have >> attempted to use spotlight in its current iteration, I get everything but >> what I'm looking for. I have been raked over the coals on this list for >> complaining to Apple for fear there are those who will lose their >> accessibility. At this particular juncture in my opinion they lost an >> integral part of what the OS was supposed to mean. I have enough vision to >> be able to see the screen, yet it does no good to use my key commands to get >> where I need to go. Apple is more concerned about aesthetics then they are >> functionality with reference to how their current OS works. If we don't ask >> questions, stand up for what we need we will ultimately lose what we have. >> Those who are currently taking me to task now will be truly whining.. The >> difference is, you know me, they don't. >> Pam Francis . >> >> On Oct 20, 2014 10:05 AM, "'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries" >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> I have a quick question about the way that Spotlight is supposed to work in >> Yosemite. >> >> As far as I have been able to read, you should be able to get web results >> from Bing, using Spotlight. >> >> So, pressing Command Spacebar, which brings up the edit box, and then typing >> in a search term, using the down arrow key produces absolutely no results. >> >> Results are indeed displayed for documents and email, but I am hoping that >> there might be an easy way to get Bing results displayed in Spotlight, if >> this is supposed to be the way that it works. >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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