It's pretty accessible as long as you know a few tricks to deal with
it. The main content of most widgets reads the way a web page does. Do
change the widget's preferences, you need to flip it over though. The
way you do this with Voiceover is to go to the bottom right corner of
the widget (i.e. last item). It should be an image. Route the mouse to
the voiceover with ctrl-option-command-f5 (if you have the mouse
following the Voiceover cursor you can skip this as you'll already be
routed) and click with ctrl-option-shift-space. When you're done flip
the widget back over by repeating this process. To switch between
widgets press ctrl-option-f2 twice, the voiceover window chooser
becomes the widget chooser while in Dashboard.
A side note: you can bring up Dashboard from anywhere by pressing f12,
though you can change this key if you want.
I haven't made a widget myself, so no idea how that's done.
OS X comes with a default set of widgets, one of which is a weather
widget. The issue with it though is that for certain areas it seems to
be inaccurate. I remember in Phoenix, when it was about 105 degrees
out, the weather widget would say that it was 60 with a high of 65
which I knew perfectly well it wasn't and yes, the measurement was set
correctly. Not sure where it gets its information, and I'd have to
think that it's been corrected by now as that was over a year ago.
It's accurate for me now, but I'm in a different area. Give it a shot
and see how it works for you.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:04, Dan Geise wrote:
hello all,
I was playing arround in the applications folder and found a app
called dashboard. I went into safari and looked it up and I guess
you can make your own widgets...Does this work for us and what kind
of widgets do you all have, It would be nice to have a weather
forcast and perhaps one that apple recomended was one to get food
recipes. what do you all think.
thanks dan
