Hi Lou and Others, This link to an article on alternative solutions to reinstate hierarchical menus in the dock for Leopard is quite interesting; since I, too, am still using Tiger I'd be interested in finding out whether any of the (now four) solutions are accessible.
As wonderful as hierarchical menus in the dock are, since you still have to drag and drop a folder into the dock to use them, this begs the question of whether there's a good accessible way to drag and drop. I read Josh's solution for manually moving content to an iPod -- another operation that requires drag and drop: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg14237.html Subject: how to move content on to device in itunes? <begin quote> On May 10, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: While not the most elegant solution, it works quite well after a bit of practice. Follow these steps and after a few attempts you will be moving stuff. I am able to do this easily with a MacBok, though it may be more difficult with other varieties of Mac. 1. Move to the item you wish to move in the songs list. 2. Use VO+Command+F5 to move the mouse cursor there. 3. Lock the VO keys with VO+Semi-colon 4. start dragging the item to the left using the trackpad or mouse. Do not lift up on the mouse button as you do this. While doing this, you can hit the F5 key to hear where you are on the screen. It helps to have a good idea of the visual layout of the iTunes screen, as I did before attempting this. The sources list is on the left. 5. Position the mouse over the iPod entry in the sources and release the mouse button. It's not perfect, but I can do it very, very quickly now and have had no trouble at all. <end quote> VoiceOver can read the screen coordinates of the source and target destinations. Surely there must be a programmable solution that allows us to specify what we want to move and where we want to put it with the "mouse pressed"? And to give a quick summary, the hierarchical menus for folders in the dock are like running through Finder in column mode, but using aliases for the folders and files, so navigation is really fast (you don't have to open actual folders to navigate down through the subfolders). This also means that since when you select a file this way, it opens in its default application, you could navigate your iTunes music or podcasts this way and immediately start them playing, although using the browser in iTunes is also pretty easy. On Dec 05, 2007, at 12:54PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello! > >There has been much discussion here about the lack of hierarchical >menus in the Leopard dock. > >I found an article (posted December 5, 2007) on "The Unofficial Apple >Weblog" that speaks of 3 free solutions to this matter... Since I do >not have Leopard, I cannot tell you how accessible any of these >solutions are with VO. > >Here is the link to the article: >http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/195750954/ > >I hope this proves helpful to you... > >Lou. > > > >
