Jeff, that is an Awesome little tip. Now I wish that I could create a hotkey in keyboard manager to quickly toggle that setting. Thanks for the info.
On Oct 30, 2010, at 12:06 AM, GEOFF WAALER wrote: Actually if you set mouse cursor to "moves vo cursor" in the navigation category in the VO utility and turn off trackpad controller most items under your finger are announced. HTH. Geoff On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Justin Ekis wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
