Hello everyone,
I would like to recount an experience with cursor tracking that may
be of interest to all, or at least to some, of you. I keep all of the
cursor-tracking options selected, except for mouse cursor tracks
VoiceOver cursor. Even so, the mouse does not track VoiceOver when I
first open Safari. I am using Safari 3 in Tiger, so those of you who
have upgraded to Leopard may not find this to be the case.
Rafael Bejarano
On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi David,
On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:51AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Esther and all,
This provokes a thought. I've not had the time to do it yet and
maybe I'm
not the right one anyway but it would also be interesting to
describe the
behaviour you get with different configurations of tracking options.
Anything else play into this? I think it might speak mouse after
delay.
Any takers?
I've retitled the subject line of this post.
I usually either have all cursor tracking options checked, or all but
"VoiceOver Cursor Tracks Mouse Cursor" checked. If you really had
a mouse attached you'd certainly want this last disabled in case you
bumped your mouse. Dan Keys commented that he saw more
unstable behavior with this last option checked:
<excerpted from recent discussion in mailing list archives at:>
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg18973.html
Hey esther, your message made me think of this.
Just a little note about unchecking the VoiceOver Cursor tracks Mouse
Cursor option. If the computer feels as if every time you try to
navigate and things get a little skittish, buy unchecking this
option, it usually makes things work better. In fact, I usually leave
it unchecked. Sometimes I turn it on if I'm going to work with user
accounts or something like that. It's the only one of those six
options that I ever uncheck.
Just my observation.
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I know that other list members prefer to leave that box unchecked as
well as Mouse Cursor tracks VoiceOver Cursor and use control-option
command-F5 or control-option shift command-F5 to move mouse to
VoiceOver cursor or VoiceOver cursor to mouse cursor instead, but I
find that sometimes I can't make those operations work. And maybe
things are different under Leopard?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Josh,
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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!
