Hi Esther, Your suggestion is brilliant! Yeah I'm using Leopard in my iMac with full standard keyboard, but I have no idea how to use the key pad to be honest. I have vo tutorial, but never heard this bit. I know how to lock the vo keys, but not at all time that it allows me to do so. I mean locking the vo keys doesn't work in some applications. Best regards,
Estelita ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:35 AM Subject: Re: sticky key setting > Hi Estrelita, > > Since you said you have an iMac, you may find it easier to use > NumPad Commander key sequences. This is basically a way of > using the number pad on a full keyboard to pre-define some key > sequence combinations and bind them to the number pad keys. > > For example, turn this feature on by pressing Control-Option-F8 > to open the VoiceOver Utility and then select NumPad in the > Category Table. Select the enable NumPad Commander > checkbox (press Control-Option-Space to check the box and > turn on NumPad Commander). Type Command-W to quite the > VoiceOver Utiltiy Window. > > Now you can use the Number Pad "Plus" key to start interacting > with an item and the Number Pad "Minus" key to stop interacting > with an item. > > You can also customize the Number Pad so that instead of these > defaults, you can assign other key combinations to the Number > Pad intead of holding down these sets of keys. > > I'm not using Leopard, and I have a laptop (no number pad), so > someone else can probably give you better instructions. This > is another alternative to locking the VoiceOver keys with the > Command-Option-semi-colon sequence Chelsea suggested. > > Generally, I only lock the VoiceOver keys when I'm reading > through a long document with only navigation keys in use. > After all, in most instances you'll have to unlock the VoiceOver > keys (by pressing the semi-colon key again) to enter other > commands. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > P.S. On a laptop I just hold down the shift key with my left > ring finger, the control key with my middle left finger, and > the option key with my left forefinger (using my left hand). > I press the down arrow key (or up arrow key) with the > center finger of my right hand. This is actually fairly easy > for me to do to start or stop interacting. > > On June 08, 2008, at 12:59PM, Chelsea wrote: > >Hi, you can press VO keys plus ; and the VO keys will be locked so > >that you don't have to hold them down. > >On Jun 8, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Estelita wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> Any suggestion please on how to set the vo sticky keys? > >> Like for instance in interacting command, we have to press down the > >> option > >> key, ctrl key and shift key together while pressing the up or down > >> arrow, > >> which is very difficult to do. > >> If the sticky key is set, then we only have one or two keys to press > >> to do > >> in some operation. > >> Thank you. > >> > >> Estelita > >> > ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html
