[macvoiceover] Re: Annoying problem with submenus

Ron, you are !awesome,! and my Mac experience is a much happier one.

 

I will most definitely write to Apple's accessibility group and apprise them
of my problem and tell them that this bug needs to be exterminated.  By the
way, thanks for the heads up regarding the need to use the VO-Command-F5
command if I want to drag and drop stuff.

 

Kindest regards, and you really earned your good deed for the day points for
today!

 

Mike

 

 

 

From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron J.
Sent: Saturday, 10 October, 2009 12:36
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Annoying problem with submenus

 

Mike,

 

            The problem you're having is exactly what happened to me, first
Time I installed SL.  What's happening is that you're the victim of a bug in
SL's VoiceOver.  It's a mouse cursor tracking issue.

 

            To eliminate this annoyance, do the following:

 

            1. Launch the VoiceOver Utility.

 

            2. Navigate to the "Navigation" section in the categories table.

 

            3. Navigate to the mouse cursor popup menu and do a VO-Space on
it.  There are 3 options in this menu; "Ignores VO Cursor", "Follows VO
Cursor" & "Moves VO Cursor".  I'm guessing yours is set to "Follows VO
Cursor".  That's how mine was set, initially, as that's how I had it set
under Leopard.

 

            4. Set this option to either "Ignores VO Cursor", or "Moves VO
Cursor", and you'll fix the problem.

 

            Be aware that if you set it to either of these two options,
you'll need to use VO-Command-F5 to route the VO Cursor to the mouse cursor
in situations where they need to be in synch.

 

            Also, from what I'm able to determine, VO's Drag & Drop
functionality doesn't seem to work unless mouse cursor is set to "Follow VO
Cursor".

 

            Apple is aware of this issue, and several others, but, I'd
strongly recommend writing to accessibility@xxxxxxxxx, and let them know
you're having this issue.  The more of us who do, the more pressing the need
to squash this bug!

 

HTH?

 

Ron

 

On Oct 10, 2009, at 5:08 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:





Hi list members,

 

Ever since installing Snow Leopard, I have had problems with submenus
automatically opening, a feature which I don't want!  I have been unable to
locate an option to turn this off in the system preferences, but I just
might have missed it. 

 

Any help on turning off the feature (if it really is a feature) would be
gratefully appreciated.

 

Mike

 

 

 

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