Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-10 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi April, I thought I would mention this to you. I have only had my MacBook Air for a little over 4 months. when I first started, I accessed the Voiceover help menu by pressing CONTROL-OPTION-H. This is the command to open Voiceover help. If you arrow down to a submenu item called "Quick Start

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread April Brown
Hi Eileen, Thanks. I had run the tutorial three times. And nowhere did it mention that I had to use a specific browser. It's also not very intuitive. I'm going to create my own step-by-step manual, Because there's no way I will remember any of those key combinations. I simply don't have the me

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I would suggest a different approach. You should read the Getting Started Guide which is also in the help menu, and learn to use the commands help which is in the same place, or vi-h-h, in other words, hold down the vo keys and press h twice. This would explain much of this to you, and if y

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hi David and and All, I just wanted to point out that these help items are available. I never suggested a particular method on how I proceeded. In fact, I have used and are still using a wide range of medias and techniques that include the onboard help tutorials, podcasts from several sites, th

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread April Brown
Thanks David Taylor, I am still considered fluctuating low vision. So I have used the most accessible browser for ten years. Was once Opera. It gave up accessibility years ago, so I moved to Firefox for the NoSquint of 125%, and set pages to a readable font, as well as adblock. I'd n

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread April Brown
Thanks Eileen, I'll keep working on understanding it. Maybe spending about 30 minutes most days on it. No more, or it will overwhelm me, until I understand it. It would be nice if in the afternoons, I could close my eye and rest while listening to my daily updates. On Saturday, Janua

Re: Accessing The Voiceover Quick Staart tutorial

2014-01-11 Thread Daniel Hawkins
April, About Safari remembering your password. If you don’t like that you can disable Apple Keychain. It is Apple’s new method to remember all your passwords. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edi