Spaces is off for me and I'm not having this issue. If it is off, you should not be affected by whatever shortcuts are used to opperate it unless there is a way to turn it on with a hot key for a session.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Wanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 6:20 PM Subject: Re: discovery, why some programs lose focus I went to check if Spaes was on after Greg sent the email and it wasn't so I'm unsure why the keys were working. In any event, I went a step further and resolved the problem. Just turn spaces on and then go down further in the preferences for Spaces and change the key shortcuts to move between one space and another. You have a pull down with tons of choices. Once I changed this nothing happens if I hit these keys and all is good! On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:29 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > which recommended tweaks did you implement? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justin Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:41 PM > Subject: Re: discovery, why some programs lose focus > > > Hello > > I was looking at this thread and wondering what you guys were talking > about when I suddenly had the same problem while reading a wikipedia > article. Incidently, it happened after I implemented the recommended > tweaks. > > I notice that when this happens, voiceover makes a sound like it is > being re-focused. I also notice that the cursor usually gets routed > to a link on a webpage. I have not noticed any of this problem > outside of HTML. Links are the place where the keyboard cursor will > go. Remember that the keyboard cursor does not move over text, such > as the main text of a wiki document nor does it move over groups as in > when you are in groups mode and reading the chunks of text and links > intertwined as is the common style of wikipedia articles. I think > that this is a cursor tracking issue. > > I have a problem where I am reading a pdf or html document, and I cmd > tab out of that window to do something else, cmd tab back into it and > find that I have lost my place. The cursor usually wants to go to the > top of a pdf document, or at least the current page; I don't use > continuous viewing for this reason. among others. I noticed something > interesting when I was messing around with it a couple minutes ago. > If I turn off cursor tracking vo shift f3 before cmd tabing back into > an html article, the cursor does not jump, and I can resume from where > I left off. As soon as I neglect to turn off cursor tracking, focus > moves to the top of the article. Then I tried something else. Under > the navigation pain in vo prefs, find the pop-up-box that is usually > set to have the vo cursor start on the keyboard focused item in a > window. Change that to make it start at the top of the window "first > item in window". I found that even with cursor tracking on,this helps > to maintain focus of the vo cursor. > > I have not done much with this thus far, so I think others should try > this and see what they can find so we can get a better idea of the bug > before reporting it. > > Justin Harford > > Where I come from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true; we > call it history. > Wicked > > > >
