Hi Mary, You don't hear anything automatically with this method. You first lock the VO keys with VO semicolon. As you are moving your finger along the trackpad, occasionally press f5 to have voiceover announce what is under the mouse.
Also, if you are trying to use this method to find a particular icon in the status menus, be sure to press ctrl f8 to get to the menu, then press vo shift f5 to take the mouse there. By doing this first you ensure that you are moving the mouse over the icons as you intended. Hope this helps. Justin On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hello all, I recently saw a thread talking about a way to access the menus you can't reach with voiceover, such as the drop box menu. The method described talked about using the trackpad with the commander off. I just tried that, turned trackpad commander off and ran my finger around on the pad. I hear nothing. Not anything at all unless I happen to tap on some place and get lucky and an open app gets focus. But running my finger across the top of the pad, as was suggested by the person who said this worked for her to access things in the menu bar, including the otherwise inaccessible icons, gives me no speech at all. Is there something in the track pad preferences that needs to be set in a certain way to enable one to do this? Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- 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.
