Hi Will, We seem to have been crossing posts; see my last reply to find out how to use mouse keys. Briefly: you turn on Mouse Keys in the Universal Access menu under System Preferences, but using the Mouse & Trackpad tab. There's a check box option there to let you turn it on/off by pressing the option key 5 times. I check the box to show Universal Access status on the menu bar (this is also available from the "Seeing" tab for VoiceOver) so if I need to check whether Mouse Keys is on or off I can go to the status menu bar (VO-M twice or Control-F8
and arrow over to Universal Access menu). When you activate mouse keys you move your mouse with key presses. These used to be the arrow keys on the embedded numeric keypad, where "7 8 9" matched the same keys on the top row of the keyboard. The other key mappings are "4 5 6" maps to "u i o" and "1 2 3" maps to "j k l". The "5" in the center of the 3x3 block of numbers is current position. To move your mouse up, down, left, right, or diagonally by one screen pixel you press the key above, below, to the left, right, or diagonally from the current position "5" key. On the keyboard that means you press the key to the left of the "i" key (or "u") to move left, and the key to right (or "o") to move right. Up: "8" Down: "k" Left: "u" RIght: "o" and the corresponding diagonal movements: Up and left: "7" Up and right: "9" Down and left: "j" Down and right: "l" Mouse keys move 1 pixel in each direction. They're really used for precise mouse positioning, so they're not good for large moves. The advantage is that they give you exact control of moving your cursor in x or y, and if you calibrate the offset once for your computer (such as 49 key presses to the right of the "Sample" text will be centered on the flash player control) you can just turn them on and count key presses. Remember to turn them off again when you're done. (I do this by pressing option 5 times). Cheers, Esther On May 18, 2009, at 9:09 AM, william lomas wrote: > > how does one do a mouse key search with a macbook > > On 18 May 2009, at 19:00, Esther wrote: > >> >> Hi Will, >> >> Most of the links on the UK Audible site seem to work. If you're >> browsing the BBC Audiozone, none of the summary page links appear to >> work, but if you select the link for an individual book the "Click to >> play sample" on that page works correctly. Note that both the >> summary >> page for the BBC Audiozone and the individual book pages there have a >> "return to Audible" link, so I suspect that Audible's design is not >> the problem. If the site is busy, you might want to try reloading a >> page (with Command-R), and then checking the links. >> >> Incidentally, the Audible.com U.S. site uses flash to play the >> samples. The workaround for the U.S. site that was posted on the >> lioncourt.com site last year has to be modified with Audible's recent >> web page redesign; the "Listen" text item has been replaced with >> "Sample", and you have to do a mouse keys search by moving to the >> right of "Sample" (instead of searching to the left of "Listen"). >> The >> link address that Josh originally posted to the list doesn't work >> now. Actually, I can't get to the database for the lioncourt.com >> page >> at all at this time. I think the link should now be: >> >> http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/07/19/play-samples-on-audiblecom-with-voiceover/ >> >> If that does not work, look for Mac-cessibility tip #20. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On May 18, 2009, at 4:41 AM, william lomas wrote: >> >>> >>> hi how can I play a sample of a book on audible.com? >>> the UK audible site which I buy from says click here for sample but >>> on >>> the dot com site nothing happens >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
