[macvoiceover] Re: Moving through controls.

  • From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:57:22 -0400

True.

Or, you can make a short cut with the trackpad, keyboard, or num pad 
commanders.  And if on the web, you can turn on single letter navigation under 
quick nav, and just press the letter J.

hth

Ricardo Walker
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On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nice one, too bad we need two hands.
> What about reversing ?
> Just add Shift.
> 
> TF
> 
> On 10/08/2012, at 6:30 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> don't use tab for navigating controls.  I would, and do, use VO command J.  
> This is the actual VO command to navigate to the next control.  This is way 
> more predictable than tab.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ricardo Walker
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> On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Ashley <ash.cox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> My thoughts exactly. It would be nice if there was 1 way of doing things. 
>> I've also noticed that tabbing through controls isn't as consistent as it 
>> could be, which is something I'd like to see fixed - I don't always want to 
>> have to keep interacting with everything just to access, say, an item in a 
>> table.
>> 
>> On 08/08/2012 23:49, Ian Edwards wrote:
>>> A big frustration in transitioning to Mac and VO for me is how navigating 
>>> wroks differently in different situations. On my Macbook Air, I press Shift 
>>> VO Function left arrow to to to the top of my in-box list in Mail. For the 
>>> bottom of the list it's Shift VO Function right arrow. Sounds like a lot, 
>>> but the keys are all right together. Same commands work on a web page. 
>>> Note, you need to be interacting with the list for the in-box commands to 
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> In a document some of the standard OSX commands work independently. This 
>>> includes Command up and down arrows for top and bottom of document, command 
>>> left and right arrows for beginning and end of line. Page up and down don't 
>>> seem to work in conjunction with VO consitently. It works in Pages, but not 
>>> always in Text Edit, and nobody has been able to explain why it works 
>>> sometimes and sometimes not.
>>> 
>>> Anyone know about jumping to the top of a finder list?
>>> 
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> 
>>> Ian
>>> On 2012-08-08, at 4:36 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxter38@xxxxxxxxx> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Function VO Left or Right arrows will take you to the top left or bottom 
>>>> right corner of the--whatever--list, table, … I don't believe this works 
>>>> in TextEdit, but it does in Mail.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter
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>>>> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
>>>> 
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