Hi Janet, Check out the VoiceOver Getting Started Manuals at:
http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/books/vogs/ These extend the Apple-supplied PDF and MP3 formats to a number of other options, including Braille, and include both Leopard and Tiger descriptions. (The original manuals for Tiger have been available from Apple for a few years from Apple at: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/manual.html and have the MP3 files links chapter by chapter, as well as the complete zip download that.) Reverse tabbing is shift-tab. Going back to a previous web page is Command-[. These are all standard keyboard shortcuts built into OS X and are not VoiceOver specific that you (or he) can easily find. Any menu option with a shortcut key combination (like the "previous page") is announced in VoiceOver when you go to that menu item (and is also displayed for the sighted user). So, if I explore the menu bar of the Safari application (VO-keys+M to go the menu bar, where VO-keys means holding down the Command and Option keys at the same time; type "hi" to go to the History menu option, or the arrow keys; then arrow down to the submenu), I will hear "Back, Command-Left Bracket" for the navigation option and its shortcut key equivalent. Hear are a few places to check: Tim Kilburn's web pages on VoiceOver (pointing you to the Safari page): http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/safari5.html I Can Work This Thing (with link to GarageBand basics): http://www.icanworkthisthing.com/docs/mac_with_voiceover/index.shtml Lioncourt.com (QuickTips, Guides and Tutorials, and Resources): http://www.lioncourt.com/ The searchable archives at the Mailing List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ with instructions on search syntax: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#search It's also possible to read this list at the archive site. I do this when I'm away from my email, and there are shortcuts to browse: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg36039.html Also, if you have run a search, and want to move through by date or thread from that post you can use those shortcuts to navigate, and typing Control-I or Control-C will show you the listed items by date or by thread content for the time period around that post. When you go to the Archive Search page focus is naturally placed in the search text field, so all you have to do is type your search terms and press enter. HTH Cheers, Esther On June 11, 2008, at 09:12AM, Janet and Felix * wrote: > >Felix, even though he's had his mac for 3 years, still cannot do basic VO >maneuvering functions on websites. He can't move around on a page. I figured >out that tab works, but then how do we go back one. Backwards tab. How do >you do that? How does he go back to the previous page? How do you jump >across dividers, say, to get past the side menus and advertising, to read the >text part of the website? > >I'm sure I can't think of everything he needs. Do you have an old archived >post somewhere that covers all this? > >Thanks. >_________________________________________________________________
