Hi Carol,
as a new mac user, I would suggest making extensive use of the help system,
especially reading the online VoiceOver help system. Read it through and
through until you feel you have a handle on all the features of VoiceOver.
I believe that online help system also has a few appendices containing all
the VO keystrokes and what they do. The keyboard functions are laid out in
levels. Example, level 1 is just VO keys as modifiers, then level 2 adds the
shift key to VO keys, then level 3 adds command to VO, and so forth. Try to
recognize the various key shortcuts according to their Level and you won't
be so overwhelmed by them.
Also, the keyboard help function is incredibly useful for familiarizing
yourself with VO and its features. Turn it on with VO+K and then explore by
holding VO while pressing various keys. Then add shift, command, shift
command etc to explore all the shortcut levels. Turn it off by pressing
escape.
Where is this help? Just press VO+h.
good luck,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Pearson" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac Access" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: 1 STEP FORWARD ... 5 STEPS BACK!
Hi all,
I'm another newby Mac user and have struggled for a couple of weeks,
sometimes losing speech, oftentimes getting stuck in tables and not
knowing quite what to do next and ... well! I thought I'd succeeded in
downloading purchases from Itunes but then couldn't even find them on
Itunes ... I have managed to get email reading nicely but that may be
considered my most useful thing to date and have answered a number of
messages but got stuck this afternoon filling in the email headers and
trying to write mail from scratch!
Anyway, I have heaps of questions and am trying the best I can to help
myself but, maybe, this Mac will beat me.
I have been working through the tutorials from Vision Australia with, at
last, some improved results. However, I have reached the conclusion that
everyone's Mac is set up differently and, unless starting from scratch
together, with the same setup and operating system, I'm not going to find
things exactly as others do. In trying to tweak my MacBook I reach a
point where something is not the same and is "dimmed out" and just don't
seem to work out what to do to solve these kind of problems. I therefore
need to get some concepts into my head to further my understanding.
I would really like a "How To ..." step by step manual to work through.
I've looked at a couple of Mac Tips and Tricks etc but really they're not
sufficiently explained for me to be able to work through the steps.
Apart from the "Vision Australia" beginners' tutorials, is there anything
else I should read? I can access and know VO keystrokes quite well but
get lost when trying to search around for HELP on specific system
settings. I found what appeared to look like a good set of tutorials on
Lion by Noteboom but hesitated to spend money only to find out that the
video tutorials were all so visual that they wouldn't work well for me.
If anyone has some suggestions to move me on from this startingpoint then
please, I'd be glad to have them.
Thanks!
Carol P
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