The problem is that sometimes people do not hold down both the
voiceOver keys they hold down control but not option. Then when they
press the arrow keys they slide into the next screen space, loosing
the focus. Just turn off spaces and all will be well.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Nov 24, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Renee M Zelickson wrote:
Can you explain this a little more for me? I am having difficulty
getting the address book read, and I don't understand what I might
have set wrong in the prefs. I use some of my vision as well as the
voiceover - but I need the speech out put to work most of the time.
Thanks
Renee Zelickson
On Nov 24, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
The answer to this is that you have spaces activated and you are
letting up on the option key while still pressing the control key.
Then when you press any of the arrow keys you slide into the next
space thus loosing your focus. The solution is to turn off spaces
in the system preferences.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 24, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Larry Wanger wrote:
Hi:
This might have been covered previously, not sure. A few days ago
I made a discovery that I found interesting. Its sort of a visual
thing in some respects.
After upgrading to Leopard I discovered that I would be using a
program; email, Safari, Etc. and would all of the sudden see it
vanish from the screen and the focus of Voiceover would be on the
desktop or finder. For the life of me I could not figure this out.
Then, I realized that I could try to re-open the program. So, say
for example I was using Mail and it closed like this and
Voiceovers focus was on the finder or desktop. If I went to the
dock and checked mail it would say it was still running but when I
clicked on it nothing would come up on the screen. Yet, if I used
the VO keys to move around it was like I was working and reading
in Mail. You can even see the VO curser moving around on the
screen over the top of icons or whatever you have on the desktop.
I could click links and surf in Safari, write in my text document,
whatever I wanted but if that was the program that had vanished it
would not appear on the screen. T bring the program back to the
screen I had to close out of it and then open it once again.
After a lot of playing around I figured out that I was not holding
down VO keys well enough. So, if I was reading an email and my
fingers let up on one of the keys and at the same time I arrowed,
the open program was sliding off the screen in the direction that
I hit the arrow. Further, it happens only if I let up on the
option key to the point that I'm not holding it down.
To mae this clearer, say I'm writing this email. If I were using
the VO keys to move around and let up on the option key and hit
arrows, the message and entire mail program vanishes from the
screen. I can't figure out how to bring it back visually; it only
returns if I hit control and arrow again in a certain direction
and then VO doesn't work properly.
This may have been mentioned before and perhaps folks have arrived
at a solution. I'm curious.
Thanks.
