Right, I just find that having my cursors follow one another works for me. Especially in Garageband where I use my number pad as arrows to drag and drop loops into my projects. I don't have that many stability issues anymore. I was having a lot of problems when Snow Leopard was first released though. On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hello Jorge, Ricardo, and Others, > > I haven't been following this thread in detail, but the usual reason for > having your cursors tracking (or, at least, having your "Mouse cursor follows > VoiceOver cursor" checked under the Navigation options for VoiceOver Utility) > is because you need to click on entries. If you don't have your mouse cursor > tracking your VoiceOver cursor, then in order to click with a mouse or > trackpad (or by pressing the "5" key of the numeric keypad when NumPad > Commander is enabled), you first have to route your mouse cursor to your > VoiceOver cursor with VO-Command-F5 so that the click is generated in the > correct place. (I think this is what Ricardo meant to say, since VO-Shift-F5 > moves your VoiceOver cursor to your mouse cursor. It may be hard to > distinguish which is the correct command to use if he has all cursors > tracking.) Generally, people might have "Mouse cursor follows VoiceOver > cursor" but might not have "VoiceOver cursor follows Mouse cursor" if they're > using a desktop machine, unless they have some vision, since then moving the > mouse inadvertently would also move the position of your VoiceOver cursor, > and lose your position. On a laptop, I have had both cursors tracking, since > there's no mouse to hit. > > The trade-off between having your Mouse cursor following your VoiceOver > cursor by default and routing to your Mouse cursor with a separate command > (VO-Command-F5) is stability vs. reliability of "click' in transitional apps. > In most "mature" apps that work well with VoiceOver, you should be able to > leave mouse cursor tracking off, and you'll gain a little bit in stability of > behavior when using lots of resources. (This was more significant under > Tiger, or if you were using systems with limited memory resources, etc. and > running intensive programs that took up lots of system resources -- lots of > cache usage, etc.) However, in apps with transitional accessibility, > sometimes routing your mouse cursor by hand does not work reliably, and > you'll only get consistent results if you have your mouse cursor set to > follow your VoiceOver cursor. For example, before iTunes was fully > accessible, I always set my cursors tracking when using iTunes. For > Automator under earlier Leopard releases I could only assign variables (with > mouse clicks) if I had my mouse cursor following my VoiceOver cursor. But > sometimes having cursor tracking turned on can lead to unstable behavior, > like being jumped to the top of a web page when navigating links. So > there's no universal answer about the best setting to use for everyone and > everything. In most instances, for people using the commonly used suite of > applications in modern systems, you can leave cursor tracking off, and route > the cursor when needed for a click (with VO-Command-F5). Also, in most > instances now, having cursor tracking turned on should work equally well. > > The other problem people sometimes run into is finding that a "click" with > VO-Shift-Space doesn't work -- they actually need to physically click a mouse > or trackpad (button) or press the "5" key on a numeric keypad with NumPad > Commander active in order to "Click" and change a setting. Again, this > doesn't happen frequently, but in transitional accessibility situations, if > VO-Shift-Space doesn't work to "click" on an entry, try using a physical > click of the trackpad, mouse, or use the NumPad Commander key (which appears > equivalent to a "hardware" click to the system). > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On 12 Mar 2010, at 07:59, Hypnotic Consulting wrote: > >> Ricardo wrote: >> I forgot to mention I have all my cursors following each other. So if you >> don't have your mouse following the VO cursor, you press VO shift F5 to move >> mouse cursor to Vo cursor before pressing VO command shift spacebar. >> >> What's the reason for having your cursors together? >> Jorge >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
