There are two additional difficulties in making the switch. one is
the vo keys. with windows at, you just use arrows and extended arrows
to do most things bearing on navigation and tab and space for nave and
activate and enter along with space depending on what you want to
activate. With vo, you can do some of this but the best approach i to
use the vo keys because this allows you to read information that is
other wise unobtainable or un navigable.
The second biggy is the insertion point. it rests between characters
from the vo and system perspective but on a character from the windows
at perspective. So with vo, what yu hear announced will preceed
actuallity in the direction of navigation such that if you are moving
from right to left through the word fog, you will hear g first but you
are actually aproaching o so if you delete that is backspace you will
delete o and not g and so on. if you move right, when you hear f,
you are on o so that if you press backspace, you delete o. There are
better illustrations of this but this should suffice most ways.
2 more things. backspace is called the delete key and there is no cut
in the finder. One last thing. on some of the near recent models of
the mac laptops and full sized keyboards, there is a key for return
and a key for enter and in many instances, they are not
interchangeable as they are in windows.
On Jan 5, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
I find what confuses some people with voice over is the whole
interacting thing, I think it's pretty simple, you could just call it
zooming in or focusing in on an item, but that confuses some people.
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:51 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hello all,
One thing I have observed about the mac which has been different
from most if not all of my windows experiences is that when I read
the manual for my macs and the os and vo materials, I was able to do
anything I needed to do with the mac and the os because either there
were keyboard comands built-into the os or into vo. The most
startling thing though was how my knowledge of vo helped me with the
system in general when I was reading the user guides.
If you want to read the user guide for your mac, there is a folder
on the hd called user guides and information which has the welcome
to leopard guide and the user guide for your computer along with
another document or two. These work well in preview and give you
some vo practice.
