Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-07 Thread E.T.
Right and I do not know because pressing VO shift s just dings. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
According to OV help. Then use the arrow keys to scroll up or down or side to side. To scroll vertically one page at a time, use Page Up and Page Down. To scroll horizontally one page at a time, use Shift-Page Up and Shift-Page Down. I don't think I ever got good feedback on this though. I wonder,

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-06 Thread E.T.
Yes I do that too. Am curious though, what is the VO-shift-S command for then which interacts with scroll bars? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-06 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
That doesn’t seem to work. Using Item Chooser might get that result, but on a big folder it takes crazy long to come up. Vo Find was similarly pokey. The mouse idea might prove workable though. I will have to play with that. Maybe its also time to create some subfolders and organize so that

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-06 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have always just typed the prefix of the file I am looking for, for example when in the Applications folder typing "p r e " gets me to preview application. On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:27 PM E.T. wrote: > Jonathan, > Please clarify. When in a folder with hundreds of files, what > commands do i

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-05 Thread E.T.
Jonathan, Please clarify. When in a folder with hundreds of files, what commands do in fact work? So far the only way to scroll and keep the VO cursor visible is simply to use the up and down arrow keys. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries o

Re: Navigating Finder

2017-03-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yes, it is standard in MacOs that the current selection does not move when using standard scrolling functions like page up or page down. I generally avoid these commands for the VoiceOver equivalent keys or using a VoiceOver search. Other things you might find useful depending on your actions:

Navigating Finder

2017-03-04 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
I did my homework, but I haven’t found the answer to this one. If I want to move quickly through a list of files in Windows, I can simply press Page down. The focus will move with me. Not so in Finder. Focus stays where I left it at last arrow press. Is there any way to make focus travel wi