[mac4theblind] Re: help on help!
- From: "Julio C. Perez" <jcperez11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:56:34 -0500
Hoping to get back on track quickly, I press the "VO-?" keys and find that I
have closed the help topic window rather than make it the active window. I then
press the same keystroke again to open the help menu. Should this be simpler
than I'm finding it?
On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Julio C. Perez wrote:
> 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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