I had a devil of a time on Sunday when I began setting
up the thumb drive. Things were exactly as Gordon described but
it is truly amazing how far voiceover has come since Tiger.
Doing system administration on a Tiger system with voiceover is
like one of those nightmares in which you are trying to
accomplish something but normal familiar things don't work right
or your feet are stuck in quick sand, etc.
Gordon Smith writes:
> I suggest you re-format the thumb drive to Mac OS X Journalled.
> Otherwise, you won't be able to boot from it. This means that you'll
> have to partition the drive as Guide Partition. Do that under the
> Partition tab of Disk Utility.
Exactly as described and a million thanks. What really slowed me
down were two things. When you plug the thumb drive in, it shows
up like it should and diskutility has a "select drive or volume"
tab which immediately dims when you try to use it. Not funny!
There is something called "outline" and it took a very long time
before I got it through my thick head that this is a table and
you must interact with it. In there lies the drive list and it
always defaults to the boot drive but you just VO-arrow down to
the new drive.
The other tiger-ism I still have trouble with is basic
navigation. Those of you who started out with tiger know that
selecting stuff usually goes in a circular queue so that's a
little confusing. The side bar says which drive you are on, all
right, but getting all the radio buttons set seems more like
trial and error and mostly error. I kept ending up in user space
and then suddenly, I hit the magic combination and was able to
go inside utilities to get terminal as it was not in the dock
nor in the recent applications.
I needn't have bothered because terminal under tiger is
terribly close to inaccessible. You run it and it behaves
differently as it buffers output which dribbles out several
lines behind as you type.
VO-a does read the buffer and, at the time, I forgot to
try VO-k to see if that works in tiger, but I think I am going
to enable ssh login and go to a linux system in the house and do
my command-line work from there.
I remember back when voiceover first came out that I
went to an Apple store and tried it out and said, "not just
yet." It was that kind of stuff that made me wait. Even leopard
is light years ahead as far as accessibility goes. Well, only a
couple more days and my wife will have Lion.
I really spent several hours on this yesterday and most
of it was poking at the radio buttons in list view, column view
and icon view and then cycling through the wrong subset of the
wrong directory. I couldn't get utilities and then there it was
and I'm not sure how I got there.
Anyway, thanks for the help and this has been
interesting. I've gone through my "not for public forums"
vocabulary more times than I can count.
Martin
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