If you have a num pad, using the num pad for voice over does make it
much easier. I used some of the default numpad keys, but also did some
of my own mapping. I rarely have to do a control+option command now.
On Jan 5, 2009, at 7:12 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
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.
