There's more information on selecting contiguous and non-contiguous
items in the voiceover manual available from Apple's website www.apple.com/accessibility/
and also from one of the listers' website www.lioncourt.com
It is indeed my experience that when selecting contiguous items, you
don't hear the names of the files selected and therefore as you say, I
also have to count them.
May I also suggest you look at the help menu of voiceover utility
itself. It has lots of shortcuts and will give you insight into how to
select text on web pages and e-mail pages.
Hope this helps.
Simon
On 2 Dec 2008, at 22:35, John Sanfilippo wrote:
Hi,
When I was signing up for this list, I thought I had to copy the
password to the clipboard, then paste it in the prompt back on line.
I was kind of baffled because I was already interacting with the
text of the message body in Mail. How was I now going to select a
specific portion of text for copy to the clipboard? What key presses
woud I use? Being new at it, I believed I ran out of choices.
Ok, obviously I got it worked out because, here I am on this list. I
chose the link which redirected me to where I just entered my new
password and didn't need to bother with the original at all. I
confess, it took a while for that light to dawn on this head.
But another question, if I may, how do you select things, especially
files in a list, noncontiguously for copy or removal or whatever? Is
there a non contiguous selection? The other thing is, once you start
selecting contiguously, you do not hear what is being selected, so
you must count the things to be selected beforehand and concentrate
on what's being done. Am I doing something wrong? Must I work on
files, or messages in Mail, one at a time to be sure of what's
going on?
Help appreciated,
js
