Hello Nik and a big welcome to the world of Mac.
Spellchecking in mail is a little different than in TextEdit or any
other word processor.
I always keep Spellchecking while I type off. You can find this in the
mail preferences under Composing.
Then I interact with the body of the message I just typed by doing a
VO Shift Down Arrow. Then I go to the top of my text and press Command
Semicolon. After I find the first misspelled word, I activate spell
check with Command Shift Colon. Then I open the spell check window by
pressing VO F2 twice and down-arrow once to the spellcheck window and
press enter. From this point it works much the same as it does in
TextEdit. When you are done, just press escape to exit the spellcheck
window.
HTH.
Dan
On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Nik Petersson wrote:
Thanks guys, this is great. These keys alone makes Safari work like
a charm. I'll try these out. As for the spell check within mail,
any thoughts?
Nik
On 31-Oct-08, at 6:30 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Nick
Safari is definitely your best bet for a browser, though any Webkit-
based browser will be accessible. Opera also has some Voiceover
support. VO has a lot of quick navigation commands, here are just a
few of them (ctrl+option are the VO-keys so yo have to hold them
down when using any of these commands):
command+h - move by heading
command+m - move by heading at the same level
command+j - jump to next control
command+l - move by link
command+v - move by visited link
command+x - move by list item
There are many more commands that are listed in Voiceover's help,
have a look there for the complete list. In all cases, adding shift
to any of these commands will move backward. So command+h moves
forward by heading, command+shift+h moves backward by heading.
Remember to use the VO keys in combination with these, the full
command to move by heading would be ctrl+option+command+h. I know
it sounds like a lot of keys, but you'll get used to it and what's
nice is that it keeps the VO commands out of the way.
You can also lock the VO keys with ctrl+option+; (semicolon) and
unlock them by pressing semicolon when they are locked. This is a
nice feature if you're doing a lot of reading and don't want to
keep holding down the ctrl and option keys. Regarding Dom and group
modes, pick which one you like best. I personally prefer group
mode, as the layout then closely reflects the visual layout of the
page.
I don't know of any voice recording application that comes with OS
X, but all Macs come with iLife which includes Garageband which
will fill this roll nicely. The latest version, 2008, is quite
accessible. It's quite a bit more than a voice recorder.
Alternatively there are several very accessible audio editors you
can have a look at.
I don't have a book courier, so can't answer that one.
Hope this helps, and welcome to the ever-growing blind Mac user
community.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 14:55, Nik Petersson wrote:
Hello guys and girls, my name is Nik and I am new to Voice Over
and MAcs in general. So far I am very impressed with everything I
have encountered. However, I have a couple of questions.
When it comes to accessing the web, is Safari the most accessable
application out there? Also, I have plaied with DOM and group
modes in voice over, but are there any other voice over navigation
shortcuts simular to "H" to navigate headers using Jaws?
Also, I have a BC (book courrier) and wanted to know if anyone
knew of a transfer tool for the mac or what success has been had
with running the transfer tool in some sort of virtual windows
environment.
Last (for now) Does anyone know of a accessable voice recording
application that comes with the standard OS install?
Also,... I have worked out how to do spell check in text edit
(command+;) and then use (VO+shift+m) to access the spelling
suggestions. However, in mail, I can access the spell check using
(command+;), but the VO shortcut to access the spelling
suggestions does not work, so sorry for the spelling errors, but
does anyone have any input on this?
Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
Nik
