Hi Lynne, I love the trackpad commander, but am also plagued by that problem where a random palm touch alters the insertion point during text entry, resulting in very amusing and hard to put back together data.
I wonder though if activities could offer a solution -- i.e. automatically turn off the trackpad commander while in text edit. I don't think the mail composition area is identified as a separate window which could trigger an activity (I like navigating mail via track pad) but perhaps there may be a way to have a script automatically kill off the trackpad commander when it detects that one is in the edit pane? I suppose the trouble there is that like turning off the commander, you'd have to remember to run it :). Still, creative exploitation of the new activities feature might solve the problem in apps such as textEdit and Pages. Best regards. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Reading a webpage using a trackpad hello Anne Many thanks for this helpful post. I'm just debating now whether to set up a Magic Trackpad on this machine. The Internal trackpad is a pain with the commander turned on. Lynne On 23 Jul 2011, at 17:43, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Lynne, Reading a web page using the trackpad is very similar to doing it on the iPhone. You have the rotor which includes everything that is in the Web Rotor (VO-U), with the addition of characters and words. The selection affects the one-finger swipe up or down. The one-finger swipe left or right goes to previous or next item. A double tap clicks a link, and so on. In addition, you can interact with an item with a two-finger swipe right, and the reverse stops the interaction. A two-finger double tap at the top of the trackpad takes you to the menu bar and a one-finger swipe right takes you through the menu items. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2011, at 18:17, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello everybody > > Using Trackpad Commander and VoiceOver, what's the procedure for reading a web page using the Trackpad? I assume it must involve holding down the VO keys, which could be a bit of a pain. > > Lynne > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
