Scott,

These combinations are not in conflict at all.  It can be argued though that 
at least at times, you need for them not to track one another and this is 
why we can turn it off temporarily and turn it on again.  It can also be 
argued that the voice over cursor should never follow any other cursor but 
the cursors should always follow the voice over and mostly conversely, the 
other cursors should not follow the vo cursor.

Now that I've thoroughly confused you, here's how it works.  If you are 
voing around in a document and the two insertion point boxes are checked, 
you can start typing where you stop with vo and if you are using the arrows 
to move in a document, you can pick up where you are with vo if you like.

same with the mouse and keyboard focus cursors. sometimes, I have needed to 
do a control click right where I am with vo and having the mouse cursor 
follow me while I vo has been handy for that.

The manual provides some exercises which help demonstrate this and the mix 
and match.

I hope this helps.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Lawlor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by 
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: cursor questions


Hi.

Thanks for the info on my basic questions email from all you guys.  I
was looking in the voiceover utility under navigation and was
wondering about the following.
Currently it looks like the following options are all checked.

mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor. viceover cursor follows mouse
cursor.  Should both of these be checked as in the way that I'm
thinking about it, both cursors would be following each other and that
sounds sort of confusing.

also, voicover follows keyboard focus is checked as is keyboard focus
follows keyboard focus.

It doesn't seem logical that both items in each of these pairings
should be checked but then I'm new at this.


Thanks for any clarification on this matter.

Scott




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