[mac4theblind] Re: help on help!

  • From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:00:14 -0500

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.

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> 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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