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

  • From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 21:15:33 -0500

Hi,

Go to Voiceover utilities with control option F8.  Then navigate to verbosity 
and select the hints tab.  I believe the setting you want to uncheck says 
something like speak instructions.
On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:06 PM, David Poyner wrote:

> 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
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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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