Yes, I can put the droplet anywhere in the finder and take the movie
and drop it on the droplet app and it converts just fine. For testing
purposes I used it in ICon, List and column mode. The instructions are
pasted below.
Dragging and dropping using Voice Over in Leopard 10.5 and later
by VaShaun Jones
This audio production has been created to assist new Voice Over users
with understanding the Mac platform and Leopards built in screen reader.
Outlined in this file are the long instructions for dragging and
dropping. It should be noted that some steps are optional and is
dependent on the users mouse tracking settings, however if the steps
are followed then the end user will produce the desired action.
Note: Voiceover keys = Control-Option and will be denoted by the short
form VO Keys.
1. Press VO keys F3 to turn cursor tracking off
2. Hold down the VO keys and use the arrow keys to move to the item
you want to drag
3. Press VO keys command F5 to route the mouse pointer to the item
you want to start dragging
4. (optional) Press VO keys F5 to make sure this is the desired item
that you want to move
5. Press the VO keys, shift, command spacebar to select this item and
begin the dragging process
6. Press VO keys with the arrow keys to navigate to the area where you
want to drop this item
7. Press VO keys, command F5 again to route your cursor to the area
where you want the item you drug to be placed
8. (optional) Press VO keys F5 to check if you're on the correct area
for dropping
9. Press the VO keys, shift command spacebar to drop the selected item
10. Press VO keys, shift F3 to turn cursor tracking back on
For more tutorials like this and screen reader training, please visit
us on the web at numpadplus.com. Thats n u m p a d p l u s.com
On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Shaun and Others who use drag and drop with applications,
Do you use drag and drop to move your .tivo files onto the droplet?
I thought that VoiceOver's drag and drop only worked in list mode.
How do you use the droplet? Remember, I'm still using Tiger, so I
can only go by what I've read about the way drag and drop works in
Leopard. For example, some droplet applications install into the
Dock, and I don't know any way to drop files at a specific location
in the Dock. Can you create an alias or symbolic link to a droplet
app, and drag and drop files to it under Finder in list mode and
have the application work?
Esther
On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Shaun Jones wrote:
What makes it not be accessible if we have the ability to drag and
drop? I have a droplet that converts my .tivo files to a .mpeg
file. I know this works, but I didn't know it was called a droplet.
On Aug 6, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Esther wrote:
Droplets are not accessible. These are basically a class of
applications (including AppleScripts) that activate when users do
a drag and drop of a file onto the droplet app. That activates
the application and it acts on the file. For example, I posted
earlier today about how Mac users who wanted to work in another
language, and check spelling in French (for example) could use a
command in terminal to open TextEdit to work on a file in a French
language localization at the same time your usual TextEdit
sessions are set to open in English. Well, at least one poster on
Mac OS X Hints solved that problem by using AppleScript to write a
"droplet" that would do that; for regular text editing you open
TextEdit the normal way. For occasional files you want to open
with a (in his case) Japanese language localization, you grab the
file in question with your mouse, and drag it onto the droplet
which opens it in TextEdit with the desired language localization
for spell-checking or whatever. I think the word "droplet" comes
from "drag and drop" plus "AppleScript-let".
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:53 AM, vashaun jones wrote:
I keep hearing droplet used in certain Mac applications, what are
they and what are they used for?
