On 09/02/2008, at 11:17 AM, Esther wrote:
I don't think there's a general prescription for key combinations if
you're defining them for "All Applications". I was surprised to find
that my key combination for Yvonne's suggested "Start Speaking
Selected Text" worked if I didn't start it in VoiceOver. If I
selected
text, then used the keyboard shortcut that I'd made for "All
Applications"
nothing would happen. (I'd taken the precaution of restarting my
computer after making the keyboard shortcut assignment since this
was for "All Applications"). However, when I toggled VoiceOver off,
and then gave the same keyboard shortcut, and toggled VoiceOver
on again, everything worked. Since the text selection was already
made, whether VoiceOver was on or off did not affect the selection
being sent to the keyboard shortcut, and this started speaking
as soon as I gave my assigned shortcut keys. I turned VoiceOver
on again right away.
The sequence I chose doesn't seem to work when I have VoiceOver
on. Maybe another one will work. As far as I know, this sequence
doesn't appear in any of the lists of VoiceOver keyboard shortcuts
and doesn't do anything in any app that I've tried it in before making
the assignment.
Hi.
That's really odd. I certainly don't have to stop VO to use this
trick, or I'd've mentioned it. Incidentally, the key combination I'm
using right now for this is control cmd slash.
In my experience, control and command aren't usually used by other
apps for things, and if you use a punctuation key, it's even less
likely, so Most of my all applications shortcuts use those.
The other thing that might be worth trying are the function keys. I've
found most apps don't use those either, particularly, I'd guess, when
combined with modifiers, e.g. shift, option, that kind of thing. When
you're talking shortcut keys, particularly global ones, my advice is,
go really obscure. Punctuation, weird modifier combinations, that sort
of thing and of course, although this should probably go without
saying, nothing using the VO key prefix, <grin>.
