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. >> >> /jp, mac user without papers!************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any > changes to their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> -- >> Jonnie Appleseed >> With His >> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s >> Touching The Internet >> Reducing Technology's disabilities >> One Byte At A Tie >> >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any > changes to their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any > changes to their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At A Tie ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx