[macvoiceover] Re: Top and bottom of document

  • From: Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:17:35 -0600

What's the process for passing along suggestions to Apple for documentation? 
I'd like to have access to information about how standard keys interact with 
VoiceOver. The current documentation makes assumptions about how you'll 
navigate that aren't necessarily the case.

Cheers,

Ian

On 2011-09-22, at 12:37 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:

> actually, we should probably discuss with apple what needs to be done to 
> enrich the vo documentation in this regard.  When you read the vo 
> documentation, you get the impression that tab and space do nothing when in 
> fact, we can use them just like we do in other environments.  The other 
> commands that vo has subs for should be pointed out as well.
> 
> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:33 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> 
> <giggle>
> 
> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> 
> Because its not a voiceover command.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ricardo Walker
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> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
> 
>> Ok, command up and down  arrow just worked to  go to top and bottom of 
>> document. Why wasn't this listed in the getting started guide with VoiceOver 
>> guide?
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011-09-22, at 12:00 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
>> 
>>> it's a scrolling window but it might work at that.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> wouldn't just pressing command up or down do the exact same thing?  It 
>>> works in all other edit fields so I wouldn't think Pages would be any 
>>> different.
>>> 
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx
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>>> www.mobileaccess.org
>>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:42 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> you should be able to do this by interacting using control-down arrow and 
>>>> then using shift-fn-control-option left for top and right for bottom.  
>>>> remember, you can lock the control option with conrol-option-semi-colon 
>>>> and unlock with semi-colon to reduce finger strain.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll have to test this in pages but if I remember, it does work.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, I assume this a basic I just haven't dialled into yet. If I'm in a 
>>>> document in Pages, the command for going to top and bottom of document 
>>>> respectively, it but the actual cursor doesn't always go there.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a specific way to do this in respect to interacting ro tracking 
>>>> or something like that I'm missing?
>>>> 
>>>> Ian
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