[mac4theblind] Re: help on help!

  • From: Daniel McGee <venables134@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:39 +0000

Failing that, try opening the "application menu". This can be done by pressing 
VO keys and F2 twice in quick supsession. 

Thanks 

Daniel
On 3 Mar 2012, at 17:26, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:

> try vo-f2 twice to bring up a list of open windows.
> 
> 
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Julio C. Perez wrote:
> 
> So, when I press command-tab twice, it doesn't bring me to the previously 
> open help topic I left. It only switches me to the other application windows 
> or brings me back to the same VO utilities window. If I go to the menu and 
> arrow down the windows options, I only see one applications window available 
> to choose from. Is one of those other options on that windows drop-down the 
> one I need to take me back to the topic I left? How does one switch to 
> different windows within an application window?
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:00 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> 
>> try command-tab twice.
>> 
>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:47 AM, George B wrote:
>> 
>> First of all command tab changes your application from one to another not
>> windows within a application.
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-
>>> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julio C. Perez
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 08:44
>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: help on help!
>>> 
>>> Ok, here is an example..
>>> 
>>> I am currently in a help window that has . here is an even better
>>> example of not having a clue of something that should be (and needs to
>>> be) understood by a neophyte.
>>> 
>>> As I am writing this message, I switch to another window where I'm
>>> working with a help topic. I switch back to this window to write
>>> something and when I use the "command-tab" hoping to return to the help
>>> window. I end up back in the VoiceOver utilities area. Not the help
>>> topic I thought I would be going to. How do I make this simple switch
>>> from one window to another without having to navigate back to the topic
>>> layer after linked layer?
>>> 
>>> This is the sort of thing that I never had to think about before.
>>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:24 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> can you give us an example?  I believe I know what you need to do but
>>> rather than searching through help for an item, it would speed up the
>>> process having an example.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Julio C. Perez wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It seems like the more I think I've learned, the more I know I've
>>> missed!
>>>> 
>>>> Right now I'm going through the VoiceOver help menu seeking areas I'm
>>> weak on and hoping to learn more. When I get to a "show" clickable
>>> object, I select it. and nothing seems to happen except that it changes
>>> from a "show" to a "hide" area. Where does the related information get
>>> shown? What part of this process am I not getting?
>>>> 
>>>> I can freely admit that navigation and safari navigation in
>>> particular are my weakest areas. This makes learning via the provided
>>> help topics slow. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for transplanted
>>> windows/internet explorer/JAWS users? I mean, there should be enough of
>>> us by now to have, at least, an email list that can serve as a place to
>>> trade and ask for information that might bore those of you for whom the
>>> mac environment is natural.
>>>> 
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