[macvoiceover] Re: Frustrating Sidebar issue in Finder with Voice Over

  • From: Michael Busboom <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:45:34 +0200

Yep, Marshal, that suggestion of yours was the ticket.  Ging into the Voice 
Over program, Navigation, and making sure that the mouse cursor ignored the 
Voice Over cursor solved the problem.

Thank you very much!

Mike
 
On 26,Mar,2011, at 4:13 PM, Marshall Scott wrote:

> Hi, Michael,
> I had a similar problem with the sidebar and found out that it had to do with 
> Mouse tracking set to something other than Ignore.
> HTH
> Marshall
> 
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> Since yesterday, I have had an annoying problem with Voice Over and the 
>> Sidebar in Finder.  When I VO Left to the Sidebar and interact with it, as 
>> soon as I VO Up or VO down, VO takes me out of the sidebar and places me in 
>> the window for the item it has just opened.  I have know way of currently 
>> just up and down arrowing through the Sidebar without a window opening that 
>> is associated with the Sidebar item that I have just encountered.
>> 
>> I have gone to the preferences in Finder, and the items for folders to be 
>> spring-loaded is unchecked.  Needless to say, this makes navigating up and 
>> down through the Sidebar very, very slow since whenever I encounter a new 
>> entry, its associated window pops up as if I had left the Sidebar and gone 
>> into that item.
>> 
>> Any thoughts on remedying this annoyance would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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