Sorry for the brain lapse. Getting help is command-?, of course
On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:45AM, Esther wrote:
>Hi Josh,
>
>Your Quick Tips are very helpful, but instead of saying that many
>tips work in both Leopard and Tiger, but some only work in Leopard,
>could you specifically identify where this is the case? For example,
>Control-F5 to move to the toolbar of an application doesn't work in
>Tiger, although tabbing certainly works there as well as arrowing.
>I usually find that typing the first letter of the Menu I want to reach
>on the toolbar is an even faster way to get to the menu, and if I want
>to get to the help menu for the application, I left arrow (without holding
>down the VoiceOver keys).
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>Also, I have a suggestion for additional content on lioncourt.com.
>How about a page describing preference options, and suggested
>configurations? I know there are different opinions, especially
>about things like cursor tracking options, but it would be really useful
>for new users to see how people set up their VoiceOver preferences
>and what goes into the selection -- how stable they think things
>are (if they lose focus in an app), what applications they use,
>whether they're on a laptop or a desktop (and use a mouse).
>
>I'm thinking about things like web page browsing options, hiding
>bookmark bars (or even address bars -- since you can always
>easily bring this back with option-command+f when you run a
>Google search), whether to turn image loading off, etc.
>
>Then there's the discussion of different mail preference settings like
>whether you want to hide the preview window.
>
>I was thinking about this, especially since some of the problems
>I've heard from Jed and others seem to stem from never having
>set up their options, even these many weeks after they've started
>using their Macs. Even reading the manual, it's not always
>immediately obvious what the benefits are of doing things certain
>ways. That's what I most enjoy finding out about on the list from
>the experiences of other users.
>
>Sorry to highjack your nice Quick Tip post with these comments!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Esther
>
>On Nov 28, 2007, at 07:49AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
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>>Check out this week's Mac-cessibility Quick Tip at the link below.
>>Enjoy!
>>
>>http://www.lioncourt.com/2007/11/28/mac-cessibility-quick-tip-5/
>>Josh de Lioncourt
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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