First of all, you don't sound dumb at all. Don't beat yourself up. We're all in this mac community together. Let me see if I thus can help you out.
Hotspots let you quicly jump to different parts of the screen. So basically, let's look at a practical example which I use them for. I use ProTools for all my audio production work. In ProTools, one of the things which is essential for me to do is to adjust the output level on a given track. This might not make any sense, but it's not relevant. The bottom line is, the slider which I must interact with in order to do this is about dead smacked center of the screen. So, this means trying to go from either the bottom or top of the window then vo+left arrow or right arrow respectfully, is quite tedious, as you can imagine. This is where hotspots come in really nice. I navigated with the vo keys normally to the item, then set a hotspot, so that now, with one voiceover command, I quicly can jump no matter where I am in the window, to that control with only one keyboard shortcut rather than having to move all over the place just to find the thing. Here is another example where it comes in really really handy. Another thing you can do is to actively monitor hotspots. So if you have something that dynamicly changes, you can actively set a hotspot to that item then have it automatically read to you when that area changes in any way. For example, let's take the lcd section of ITunes. A lot of times, if I'm burning a playlist to CD, or say if I'm downloading something from the store that I bought, or maybe I'm importing tracks from a CD. Rather than having to periodically look at my lcd section to keep up with the progress, I can set a hotspot to that lcd section, then can not only hit one keystroke to then jump to it quickly, but now, I also can monitor it actively, so if I do that, then each time it updates, say once a track finishes importing and the next one starts, rather than me having to constantly sit there babysitting that lcd area, I could be down in the songs list table, or out browsing the store etc. yet, i t'll automatically keep reading to me as the lcd changes until I sztop monitoring that hotspot. Go have a look at the very last heading in chapter 5 of the getting started guide. It will explain things. Chris Gilland Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holidays E-mail: [email protected] On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Patricia Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks do not want to sound dumb but I am a little when it comes to hotspots > , can you kindly tell me a little more about it please? > > Thanks very much folks good emails. > Zaylyia > [email protected] > > The past is history > the future is a mystery > the pressants is a gift . > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Glenn <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Personal hot spot on ios devices >> Date: 3 February 2013 18:43:13 GMT >> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility <[email protected]> >> >> I remember it in another place in settings, like network, or something else. >> Glenn >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sarah k Alawami" <[email protected]> >> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 12:18 PM >> Subject: Re: Personal hot spot on ios devices >> >> >> Strange. I thought it was under the phone tab, but I guess it has been >> removed, or moved. I don't use it but yeah. Odd one. I'll also envisage >> this and get back to you just in case. >> On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:18 AM, George Cham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That should have been, ios 6. 01. >>> >>> >>> George, >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 03/02/2013, at 7:01 PM, "George Cham" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, since upgrading to ios 6. 02, I can't find the personal hot spot >>>> on my ipad or iPhone. >>>> It was in the main settings section when I had ios 6. 0. 1. >>>> >>>> Typed with Fleksy >>>> reply://[email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> George, >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>>> >>>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>>> >>>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure >>>> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>>> and worm-free. 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