What is the command to turn tracking on? I am looking at a macbook air
today.
thanks much.
larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Robertson
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:08 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Track pads
Hello Marc,
If you buy a Mac laptop, you'll have a built-in trackpad, but if you buy a
desktop Mac, you'll have the option of buying the Magic Trackpad instead of,
or as well as, a mouse. There are no other brands of trackpad that work with
a mac.
As for it's limitations, there are a number of navigation commands already
mapped to gestures on the trackpad, but you can add the VO commands you use
most frequently and map them to unused gestures.
It isn't exactly like the iPhone because Mac OS X isn't IOS 5. So, on the
Mac, you have gestures for interacting and stopping the interaction, for
instance.
None of this will make sense to you until you have a Mac and learn about the
OS.
Using the trackpad with VoiceOver means turning on the trackpad commander
which renders the trackpad inoperable for moving the mouse. However, a
simple gesture turns the trackpad commander off and on, so getting sighted
help to fix a problem is still possible.
I can't give you any comparisons with Windows and its various screen readers
as I've never used Windows.
Cheers,
Anne
On 14 Apr 2012, at 16:38, Marc Rocheleau wrote:
Is there any brand of track pads people can recommend? Using an
iPhone, this intrigues me a great deal -- are all the gestures the
same as on that device as well? Obviously my next question is what
limitations does the track pad have when it comes to navigating
through the Mac OSX?
Thanks!
-Marc
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