You do not need your hands on the keyboard while using the trackpad.
It sounds, from your description, as though you do not have the
trackpad commander on.
Hold down VO and do a rotor gesture on the trackpad.
It should talk and make a sound.
At 03:39 AM 7/25/2011, you wrote:
Hello all
I've been playing with the trackpad using the trackpad commander in
VoiceOver. Maybe I'm doing something wrong; actually I think I must
be because I just can't get the results I would expect to get.
So please forgive the seemingly basic questions; but as somebody who
has vision this is quite a culture shock to me. The gestures have
changed significantly and I need to make sure I'm doing this
properly. I don't want to pronounce something broken when in fact
it's more likely to be user error which is breaking it. So hear goes
on my questions.
Firstly, are you supposed to hold down the VoiceOver keys while you
use the trackpad commander using either your inbuilt trackpad or the
Magic Trackpad? If so, in the latter case doesn't it make things a
little difficult for you; holding down keys on the keyboard with one
hand whilst manipulating the trackpad with the other? Wouldn't it be
simpler to just use the keyboard and be done with it?
If you're not supposed to hold down the VoiceOver keys, then I
really don't know what I'm doing wrong because I just can't get web
pages, for instance, to work properly using Trackpad commander. I
find that either my cursor goes whizzing off the page entirely or I
don't move at all; usually the former of the two and I have to keep
re-positioning the cursor to bring focus back to the website. So
what could I be doing wrong here?
Lynne
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