Hi Andy
Many thanks for your suggestions. We have learnt how to navigate around the screen with VO plus right or left arrow etc. Our problem is opening an item to adjust the settings. for example, in the apple "getting started tutorial" Chapter 2, under the heading of "Hear when modifier keys are pressed" the instructions are: 1. When VoiceOver is on, open VoiceOver Utility by pressing VO-F8. 2. Click Verbosity in the category table, and then click Announcements. (this is where we are stuck) 3. Select the "Announce when a modifier key is pressed" checkbox. We can interact with the table and highlight Verbosity, but do not know how to reach "announcements" from this point-despite trying numerous VO commands. This tutorial was obviously written by a sighted person: for we assume to "click" an item we either use VO plus spacebar or enter which do not work in this case for us. We are obviously missing something very simple and feel embarrased, we are both total and rely completely on what we hear, and do not have any sighted assistance to help. Any step by step set of instructions will be greatly appreciated. best wishes Henry and Angela -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent: 08 September 2013 22:23 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: new member of list with a basic question? Henry - To navigate, use the VO keys with right and left arrow keys. Another place you can make some VO customised adjustments is by using VO v when in an application, and VO cmd with the arrow keys will let you adjust voice, pitch, speed etc, on the fly - Andy On 8 Sep 2013, at 20:47, Henry Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Sarah > > Many thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I am not understanding your > instructions. How do I navigate around the screen to reach the options? > Sorry if I appear an idiot, but Mac is a steep learning curve from a PC. > > Best wishes > > Henry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah k Alawami > Sent: 08 September 2013 20:19 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: new member of list with a basic question? > > vo f8 to open the utility, then cmd numrow 2. then check additional speech > verbosity options check box then head over to the table. and modify your > settings there. > > Tc. > On Sep 8, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Henry Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> Hi All >> >> My wife has just bought a mac book pro and is gradually working her way >> through the "getting started guide". We are trying to customise voice > Over >> within the voice over utility and wish to open the Verbosity icon to > access >> the settings-although we can navigate around the category headings within >> the table we cannot open verbosity to change settings. >> >> Please could someone explain the keystrokes to open Verbosity? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Henry >> >> >> <--- 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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