Hello Esther,

Thank you for your response I should have clarified that I'm able to use the 
Command+physical mouse / trackpad click to open a link in a new window, , but I 
was hoping to find a keyboard alternative to doing this without using the 
physical mouse / trackpad. i'm not counting the rodent out but figured there 
must be a keyboard alternative that I've overlooked.

 I've tried adding the Command key to the standard VO+Spacebar and 
VO+Shift+spacebar keystrokes but these don't seem to perform as an alternative 
to the Command+physical mouse click combo, unless I've got something 
misconfigured. Do you have any thoughts as to why the VO+Shift+M combo 
sometimes opens the correct shortcut menu containing actions that can be 
applied to the currently highlighted link, while other times it opens a 
shortcut menu that seems to be the menu of actions that would apply to the 
current page, not the link.

Thanks again,
Bryan

On Dec 24, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Esther wrote:
> 
> Either Command-Click or Command-Option-Click when you're focused on a link 
> should open the link in a new Safari window.  Which one you use depends on 
> your Safari preferences settings for tabs.  If you have the pop up menu 
> selection for  "Open pages in tabs instead of windows" set to "Never", and 
> the box for "Command-Click opens a link in a new tab" unchecked, then 
> Command-Click will open the link in a new window.  Otherwise, use 
> Command-Option-Click to open the link in a new window and Command-Click to 
> open in a new tab.  The various combination shortcuts are listed on the Tab 
> pane of your Safari preferences.  If, for some reason, you want to open the 
> link in a new tab or window but not make the new tab or window active, add a 
> "Shift" to the keyboard shortcut combination.
> 
> I'm still running Safari 5.05 under Snow Leopard, but I assume you can still 
> press Command+comma and  check your tab preferences to find out the 
> appropriate answer if the above does not work for you.
> 

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