Hi Cara! Thanks for all the info! Well, how can you view websites? When I go to a website, Voice Over says "HTML content" but that's it... Oh and BTW, could you please put my E-mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your whitelist? I sent you several msgs, but I think all of them ended up in your spam folder... Robin
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:59 PM > To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of > Mac OS X by theblind > Subject: Re: Getting started with MAC and Voice Over > > > Robin, just as a very quick intro, there are in my opinion, of > course, lol! two main parts of the Mac screen that people > see. These > are the desktop and dock. Within the dock, you have two areas, one > for your running processes and trash and such, and the other > for your > status icons... > > You can get to the dock by pressing ctrl option d and to the > desktop by pressing ctrl option shift d. In either case you > can then > use the arrows to navigate and ctrl option space to activate a > particular highlighted item... > > You can access the status icons by pressing ctrl option m twice. > And then, as before, use the arrow keys (left or right) to navigate > and once on a menu, navigate it by using up / down arrows. > > > Two more quick things to note are the finder, and spotlight. The > finder is similar to windows explorer and when on the desktop > or when > viewing a folder, you're automatically in finder. You can > access it's > menus by pressing ctrl option m and this command also works > in any app > to access it's menu bar as well. so the last thing is > spotlight, and > it's extremely useful and fast... It's a search utility which > searches everything on your computer and I do mean > everything! lol! > So you can run apps from it, access email msgs get definitions of > words etc... It's amazing and it happens almost > instantaneously after > you simply type your query in the edit field. YOu get to > spotlight by > pressing ctrl option m three times consecutively and you'll be > automatically in the edit field where you can type a portion, or all > of whatever it is you might be looking for on your computer. After > you finish typing, you can use ctrl option up or down arrows to see > your choices and ctrl option space, as I mentioned before, > activates a > particular choice... > > This is just a very quick intro, and I hope it gets you started... > > Have a lovely day!... > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > > On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Robin Kipp wrote: > > > Hey all! > > I just subscribed to this mailing list because I got a new MAC Book > > running MAC OS Leopard! Well, after installing the English MAC OS, > > going > > through the Voice Over tutorial and the MAC assistant I am > now in the > > main OS. But now, I have no idea how to continue... Can > someone please > > tell me how the system is layed out, how I can open folders > and how I > > can access the start menu (if there's something like the > start menu in > > Windows in the MAC OS...)? I'd also be really glad to talk to > > someone on > > Skype who could explain this to me... Also, is there maybe > a "getting > > started with MAC and Voice Over" tutorial, or, even better, an audio > > review? Thanks! > > Robin > > > > > > > > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > >
