[macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.

Hi
Actually, arrows move you around in a wordprocessor just fine, along with lists, and just about anywhere else you could use them in windows. What might be happening to you is that the arrow keys you're pressing simply aren't moving you anywhere, either because you're not in a place you can use them or because there's no items for them to move you to. An example of this would be on the desktop, if you don't have any other drives plugged in or CDs in the drive, there's only one icon there for the hard drive. Pressing arrow keys there with only one icon present will give you no output, since you haven't moved anywhere. Most of what you're used to will work (tab, arrows, etc) though they don't always work the way you'd expect from a Windows perspective. 
hth



On Apr 22, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Sara wrote:
I don't think I've ever used the keyboard learn mode with Jaws or Window-Eyes. I think the only reason I'd use it with a mac is because I can't seem to just press the arrow keys to navigate around. Somebody please correct me if I am understanding this wrong, but from what I have read so far, arrow keys get a blind person nowhere. How do people edit text in a word processor? Do you need to use control option with all arrow keys all the time? I know you can lock them and that would help but just want to clarify. What about with the numpad? Can those keys be used instead of control option arrows to move around and have text read? I think I am missing something. It's probably a lot easier than it sounds. smile 
Sara
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:50 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.



Hi Sara,
Trust me, it was the first command I drummed into my head. You got to love 
keyboard learn mode on any screen reader.  It is a godsend.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sara
Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 4:31 AM
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Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
Thanks people! Sounds like a command I'll be using a lot tomorrow. lol 
Sara
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:23 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
vo keys-k turns on keyboard help and what's really cool about it is that 
it
even tells you what all the keys do, not just vo keys.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Reedy" <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:20 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Learning the keyboard.
Learning the Keyboard can be done with out interfearing with your work.
Pressing VO keys-k will cause Voiceover to speak the name of each key 
and if you press a combination of keys, Voiceover will tell you what
that combination of keys will do.

Press escape to stop this function.

Keith Reedy


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