Hi,
Anne already answered that Command-Option-F will take you to the
Google Search box for Safari, but I'd like to expand on this. Most of
us hide our toolbar and bookmarks bar in Safari so that entries from
these elements don't appear when you use the item chooser or link
chooser menus in VoiceOver. However, Command-Option-F gives you
access to the Google Search box that is normally exposed on the
toolbar without leaving the toolbar open: you just use Command-Option-
F, type in your search terms, and press return. The result is the
same as if you had gone to a Google Search page with your toolbar
hidden, pressed tab to go to the edit box to enter a search, and then
pressed return. Your toolbar stays closed on the resulting page and
your search query appears in the search box. Similarly, if you've
found a useful web page, and you want to copy the URL, you can use
Command-L to access the address location on the toolbar and copy it
with Command-C. Again, even though this command (Command-L) opens
Safari's toolbar (as does the Command-Option-F to access Google's
Search box), when you launch another Google search with Command-Option-
F and a new set of search terms your toolbar will be closed after
you've pressed the return key to launch your search. You don't have
to use the show/hide toggle sequences (Command-Shift-Backslash =
Command-Vertical Bar on U.S. keyboards to show/hide the toolbar and
Command-Shift-b to show/hide the bookmarks bar) to hide these again.
I use these sequences when I want to search with Google and paste
addresses into mail or TextEdit documents. You can also forward
results of searches run in the Mailing List Archives for this list at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
this way if you want to refer to old posts.
Under Tiger Safari's Help menu used to contain a list of keyboard
shortcuts that was headed by the Command-Option-F sequence. That's
not present in Leopard, but it's still useful to take a look through
application menu options. This same keyboard shortcut also works in
iTunes to move to the Search Text Field.
Finally, just a reminder that if you save bookmarks (or favorites, as
Internet Explorer calls these) of Web pages, the first nine bookmarks
saved to Safari's Bookmarks Bar can be accessed with shortcut keys:
Command-1, Command-2, etc. through Command-9 and these also work even
when the Bookmarks Bar is hidden.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Søren jensen wrote:
You can press VO command j to jump to the next control. Keep
pressing it
until you come to the next edit box
Hi list,
In safari, what key to go to edit box to enter a search?
Thank you.
Estelita
Best regards:
Søren Jensen
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Website:
http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
