I haven't tried that key combo again. With any luck, I'll remember to try
it this evening. But once I got the keyboard working, I went right to the
part of the on-line tutorial about sending mail. I intend to go through the
entire tutorial but I do also want to see if I can do the 4 things that make
up 99% of what I do on my computer for my job. I'm a systems analyst for the
University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics. So I'll probably spend an
hour or so on the getting started guide and then just for fun, try getting
real work done at the end. The 4 things I need to do are:
1. email
2. web
3. text edit
4. ssh
If I can do those 4 things productively, I can eventually become jaws free.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Finally took the plunge
John,
I feel your pain. I had a lot of trouble pairing a keyboard as well. Did
you finally get command-control-option-shift to work?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Heim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Finally took the plunge
Well, the machine came with the OS installed. I've been working from an
on-line version of the VoiceOver getting started guide from the Apple web
site. As it turns out, the reason I have been having trouble following the
instructions is that I was using a standard USB keyboard. I have a
bluetooth
Apple keyboard but obviously I couldn't use it until it was enabled. And
I
couldn't enable it until I figured out how to get by with the USB
keyboard.
It must have taken me 2 hours to get that bluetooth keyboard enabled. You
have to type in an access key and I probably did that 100 times before it
finally took. I cannot imagine what the problem was. There is no way I
typed
the number in wrong that many times. Anyway, it fiannly accepted the
access
key and things became a lot simpler once all the keys were where the
tutorial said they'd be. Half an hour after I got the Apple keyboard
working, I was sending email.
Man, what a hassle. It's nobody's fault. Just one of those things. I kind
of
anticipated this problem but I really wanted the bluetooth keyboard. If I
could have borrowed a wired Apple keyboard, I would have.
From: "Søren Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: Finally took the plunge
Hi John.
You can't run the start guide until you have installed your operating
system. Did you got my mail where I explained how to read the screen
with the VO cursor?
Best regards
Søren Jensen
Mail & MSN:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website:
http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
On 26/04/2008, at 03.11, John G. Heim wrote:
Should I still be able to get into the quick start guide now that I've
already run the setup program? Control-Option-Command-F8 does nothing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh de Lioncourt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Finally took the plunge
David and all,
The key command for the quick start is Control-Option-Command-F8, not
Control-Option-F8. The latter just launches the VO utility.
Josh de Lioncourt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...my other mail provider is an owl...
On 25 Apr, 2008, at 7:56 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi John,
I imagine you have moved on, but something that will help you out a
lot if
you can get it going at this point is the vo quickstart tutorial It
would
have come up automatically after the music stopped had you not turned
on vo
but if you can get it to work at this point, the keystroke for it is:
control-option-f8.
To navigate through a dialog and hear all its info, use
control-option-arrows. Space toggles checkboxes, sets radio buttons
and
activates pop ups so that you can make selections. when you find
what
you
want in a pop up, press enter to set it. I often tab through the
items and
then use vo keys with left arrow to hear the text of an Item if I am
not
certain what it is.
When ever I do a new mac setup, I have to use an apple keyboard to
get
it
going.
There is a setting in that dialogbox to choose the type of account
you
have,
pop, imap or .mac. Once you have seleced the account type, it should
accept
your email address. .mac is an email account that comes with a .mac
subscription or trial. .mac is an apple hosted service that provides
a
bunch of features like storage, mail and web hosting.
