Thank you very much! Working fine.
Karen
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From: "Red.Falcon" <velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Dock issue
Hi Karen!
Here is some instructions to get that part of the doc working for you!
this should apply to the apps as well!
Colin
Folders that are placed into the Dock by default are set up to work with
Stacks, I believe. What you want to do is navigate to the folder in your
dock, and bring up the contextual menu with VO-Shift-M. If you use
VO-Down arrow to move through the options, you'll find categories for
"Sort by", "Display as", and "View content as". These are headings for
the categories, and will be announced as "dimmed". The arguments you can
check under "Sort by" are: "Name", "Date Added", "Date Modified", "Date
Created", and "Kind", with "Name" checked as the default. It's the
options in the "Display as" and "View content as" categories that you'll
want to change. I set "Display as" to "Folder" instead of "Stack", and I
set "View content as" to "List". I don't remember what the default
setting of "View content as" is -- it may be "Automatic" or "Fan", but
when the contents come up and are not in "List" mode VoiceOver doesn't
announce them.
You need to bring the context menu up for each item you want to change.
So if you want to view your contents as "List", navigate to the folder,
use VO-Shift-M, and VO-Down arrow to "List" then press return. Then if
you want to display as "Folder", use VO-Shift-M again, arrow down to
"Folder" and press return. You can use either the up and down arrow
keys alone, or in combination with the VoiceOver Control and Option keys
to navigate these menus. The difference is that you won't hear the
category headings of "Sort by", "Display as", or "View content as"
announced if you use the arrow keys alone without the VO keys. For
anything you do apart from this initial setup, using just the arrow keys
by themselves will give you all the information.
Once you have set up the folder to be displayed as a folder and viewed as
a list, you can just navigate to the folder and either press space bar or
VO-Space to display the list of contents. VoiceOver will announce the
entries as you arrow up and down the list. Access subfolders with your
right arrow key, then move through files in your subfolder with the up
and down arrow keys. Return to the parent folder by using the left arrow
key. You can also move to the bottom of the list with Command+Down arrow
or to the top of the list with Command+Up arrow. (This seems to move to
the top or bottom of the visible list, so if your list is really long,
continue to arrow up or down and then press Command+Up or Down arrow
again.) The very end of the menu options will be an "Options" menu
(where you can reset the view options we described above) and an "Open in
Finder" option. This is handy if you want to do an actual copy and
paste, or a move of the file in Finder.
In addition, there's a rather neat trick if you want to move some of your
iTunes folders like for Podcasts to the dock, because you can quickly
navigate through the menus and start a podcast playing in iTunes from
there!
Also, I've found that in the dock you can use Fn+Down Arrow to cycle
between the Applications section, the Folders section, and the Trash.
Fn+Up Arrow also works in the reverse direction. So this is a quick way
to move to the documents section of the dock after you issue your VO-D or
Control-F3 command to move to the dock.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On 9 Nov 2011, at 17:08, 1smart...@cox.net wrote:
Hello,
If someone can tell me my error, I'd certainly appreciate it. When
navigating the dock items, there are items to the right of the separator
(applications, documents, downloads and trash). When I land on any of
these items, instructions say to press VO + space to open the item. When
I do, nothing happens...ever. All other apps open correctly from the
dock. What am I missing, please?
Thank you,
Karen
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