Hi, welcome aboard. I think you will find this list very informative. As I myself don't have a mac yet so it would be hard for me also to answer the question but there is lot of people here that will chine in. But welcome aboard. Also I will post some podcast here that might be helpful for a beginner. These podcast are done by Mike Arrigo and very well done. I will post them in the order of oldest to newest. There are two that is missing or either he got the numbering wrong. I cannot find podcast 10 and 11 . HTH http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1195MacAccessibilityDemo.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1209MacAccessibilityDemoPart2.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1233MacDemoPart3.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1298MacDemo4.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1308MacDemo5.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1315MacDemo6.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1332MacDemo7.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1367MacDemo8.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1372MacDemo9.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1408MacPodcast12.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1474MacDemo13.mp3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1567MacDemo14.mp3 Bubba bubbathegeek@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:49 PM To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mac4theblind] An introduction with an introductory question Hi all. My name is Scott and I live in New York. I've been blind all my life and have always used technology to improve my life situation. I've been a Windows user for years, but after getting an iPhone in July, have decided to take on the Macbook air. I've been using it for about 24 hours now. I understand, I think, how to interact with text, tables, and navigate around web pages. This from following the Voiceover tutorial provided on the machine itself. So far, however, I am unable to change categories in the voiceover preferences under Universal access. General is selected by default, but I can not move to any other categories. I've tried selecting another category with vo plus spacebar, command O, and shift vo down arrow to interact with different categories to no avail. Can someone please explain what I need to do to navigate between categories within the voiceover preferences? Thank you for any help, for reading, and your patience, Scott ************ 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