Hi,
John wrote:
JH:
Hi listers.
I am having trouble using drag and drop.
Are there any other methods of dragging and dropping?
For files and folders you want to move to another directory location,
it's easier to download Greg Kearney's "Move" Automator workflow from:
http://w3.wmcnet.org/vo/workflows/
Here's the description that Greg posted to this list:
Move attempts to deal with the problems that blind users face with
drag and drop. Move will move the selected items in the finder to a
choosen directory. It will then open that directory and make it the
front most window in the Finder. Selecting the directory is done with
a standard put file dialog. To install Move open it with Automator
and then choose the "Save as Plugin..." option of Automators "file"
menu be sure that the application popup menu is set to "Finder".
To move files, select them in Finder, then bring up the contextual
menu (VO-keys-shift-M). Press "mo" (m-o) to take you directly to the
"More" menu item. Navigate right to open the sub-menu which will land
you on the "Automator" item. Navigate right again to open the
Automator sub-menu. Navigate down to choose the "Move" Automator
workflow. and press return. Choose the new folder location in the
Finder-like File Browser that appears. You can interact with either
the popup button or the sidebar and choose a directory, such as
"Desktop". Finder keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Command-Shift-H for Home,
Command-Shift-A for Applications, Command-Shift-D for Desktop,
Command-Shift-U for Utilities, Command-Shift-C for Computer, and
Command-Shift G for "Go to Folder" to type in any other directory
location) also work. Alternatively, you can select any of the other
places listed in the sidebar, such as your home directory,
"Applications", or "Documents", stop interacting, then VO-right arrow
to the File Browser, interact, then select and navigate down through
the folders.
I also highly recommend Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver web pages. Here's
the link to the one for Finder, which gives many of these shortcut
sequences and also includes information about Drag and Drop:
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/finder5.html
I would use the Move Automator action to move (one or more) selected
files and folders to another directory location. I'd use VoiceOver's
drag and drop to reorder items in a list -- for example, to specify
the preferred access order to different languages in the
International menu.
As Shaun mentions, there is a podcast about VoiceOver drag and drop
at his web site:
http://numpadplus.com/blog/
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
