Thanks for the help Esther. Felix and I both have Leopard. We both have Powerbook 12 G4 laptops.
Janet _________________________________ i'm EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=EML_WLHM_GreaterGood ---------------------------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Quick Navigation by type-ahead in Finder, Menus, and iTunes [was > Re: Keeping an App permanently in the Doc] > Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:26:34 -1000 > To: [email protected] > > Hi Janet and Others, > > The ability to navigate to an item in the Dock by typing the first > few letters of its name is a Leopard addition, so it's not something > that Felix would have been able to use under Tiger. Some application > menus can be quite long, and unless you use a particular menu > frequently, you'll want to arrow through to read all the options. > However, for short menus, or for menus with options that you > frequently use, typing the first letter or letters of the option you > want is a fast and handy way to navigate. > > Typing the first letters of an item is also a quick way to navigate > under Finder, and it's often handy to use this in the iTunes Source > List or Songs Outline to go to a playlist or to a particular song in > a playlist. I also use this when I want to move quickly from a > podcast episode to the folder of a podcast that I've expanded; I'll > type the name of the podcast series, and provided all the episodes > don't carry the same name as the podcast series I move easily to the > folder. Oh, and in iTunes typing the first few letters of a song or > podcast means ignoring "The" at the beginning of a title. > > I found out that typing the first letters of an item in the Dock > works for Leopard by listening to the webcast on Leopard's > accessibility that was released last fall. I missed this when it > came out, but there's an MP3 file version of this webcast on the web > page where you can get the VoiceOver Getting Started Guides in > multiple formats (including Daisy, MP3, PDF, and Grade 2 Braille) at: > > http://www.cucat.org/books/vogs/ > > Look for the Leopard Accessibility audio file link for this talk by > Mike Shebanek of Apple from October 2007. It's a pretty good > presentation about VoiceOver and the last two-thirds of the program > are particularly interesting for visually disabled users. There's a > lot of content about what went into design decisions and what new > features in Leopard are particularly relevant. > > If you want the original webcast download, which plays as a movie > file in iTunes, you can download it directly from iTunes. Select the > iTunes Store in your source list, tab to the search text field, then > type in: "Apple Global Training" (without the quotation marks) and > press carriage return. Tab over to the Songs Outline and interact. > The first item will be about Leopard Accessibility. VO-keys-right > arrow to the column that says "free", route your mouse cursor to your > VoiceOver cursor with VO-keys-Command-F5 (or on my laptop this is > Control-Option-Fn-Command-F5 with the extra Fn key) if you don't have > your Mouse cursor tracking your VoiceOver Cursor. Then click with VO- > keys-Shift-Space to start the download. This webcast showed up as an > item named "Mac Learning" under a Playlist Folder named "Duke" in my > iTunes Source list. Just as a warning, if I want to regain control > of my iTunes navigation after pausing a movie midway (by pressing the > space bar), I press the escape key to get out of the movie display so > that I can navigate by tabbing and using the VO-keys+right and left > arrow keys again. Otherwise the focus is in the movie display screen > until the movie finishes. > > This webcast was a great intro to some of the VoiceOver Leopard > features, and (belated) thanks to Greg for converting this to an MP3 > file and making it available on the VoiceOver manual site. (For > those who may not know, Greg Kearney was also responsible for > assembling the many manual formats on that site). This also reminds > me, did anyone on the list attend Greg's Camp VoiceOver earlier this > week? > > Cheers, > > Esther > > >
