Hi, In garageband I just set up hotspots for the buttons, sliders, etc that I use most often. This cuts down the time I spend navigating within the app a lot.
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 4, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Danny Noonan <da...@familynoonan.net> wrote: > I'm thinking of Garage band and how often you interact and stop interacting > over and over again. There are some key strokes but it's still such a time > sink. > > I don't know how it could be done away with fully but better use of > interaction by software would certainly make life easier. Have it be more > universal across apps both native and third party. Making vo j work in most > if not all multi interaction situations. Some times now it's vo j, other > times, vo command shift t to switch between tables and other times like in > the Sendspace wizard, you have 3 or more levels of interaction and have to > move up 2 levels, vo right and then interact in another chain of levels. Arg. > > > I love the mac but this is 1 of those things that makes the experience far > sloppier and less consistent and is a major stumbling block on many coming to > love using the OS despite its many advantages over windows. > > Danny. > > On 31/07/2013, at 9:03 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think it is obvious that the interaction deal is one of the most difficult >> things that somebody who moves from Windows to Mac needs to deal with. What >> is frustrating is that it is not always clear when one needs to interact. >> Trial and error and lots of keystrokes and wasted time result. I certainly >> do agree that tabbing until your finger falls off isn't the best solution. >> But I do wonder if there might not be a more innovative means of >> efficiently navigating complex screens. Sometimes, it isn't even clear, for >> instance, that you are in a situation where interacting again would yield >> more info. I'm thinking of nested tables as an example. VO doesn't always >> announce the fact that you have moved into a level 12 or even 3 table or >> that you could do so by interacting. Maybe that is a coding issue, not a VO >> issue. I do wonder if there are actual blind users who work for Apple who >> have experience with other operating systems. I say that not because I want >> to see some other approach duplicated, but because I've seen too much tunnel >> vision coming from folks whose only experience is with one or another os. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
