[macvoiceover] Re: Getting rid of the command press shift, control etc

  • From: David Poyner <d.poyner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 02:06:19 +0000

Hello,
Is it possible to remove the command that states press control, shift, up or 
down arrow?  I seem to get it all the time and I have tried various 
unsuccessful ways of removing it and failed so far.

Regards
David Poyner

Chair British Blind Sport Archery
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chairman and webmaster St. Dunstans Archery Club
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On 23 Feb 2011, at 17:16, Ricardo Walker wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> 
> You can get around not having a num pad, and still use the num pad commander. 
>  When the num pad commander is on, pressing the assigned number  with the 
> left arrow key will perform the designated action.  Of course, you will have 
> to turn quick nav off.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ricardo Walker
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> 
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
> 
>> Travis,
>> I really like the num pad commander. I deliberately purchased a full
>> size keyboard with my Mac mini so I could have that feature, but the
>> Apple keyboards these days don't come with a num pad. You mentioned
>> using an external num pad, which is an obvious solution for num pad
>> commander lovers. I had lots of issues in the past with Windows laptops
>> and num pads that didn't issue the right signals to enable them to be
>> used as screen reader adjuncts, as for example, with the window eyes
>> mouse keys. So for the question: is there a particular num pad that is
>> known to work with a Mac laptops that will issue the proper signals so
>> that num pad commander will work? Those numpads that didn't work right
>> with screen readers worked ok for number entry, but I could care less
>> about that. I want one that will let me have a Macbook Air and use
>> numpad commander.
>> 
>> Mary
>> 
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