I have all mine checked on all 4 Macs and don't see any instability. What I haven't done is try starting with one, then unchecking that one and cheking another and so on and then doing them in combination to see how things develop. Maybe I'm having stability issues and am just unaware that the problems I am seeing are caused by this.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:01 PM Subject: Cursor Tracking Options and VoiceOver Behavior [was Re:Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #5] 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. <end excerpt> 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, <snip> >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!
