Sound David, I will absorb all you say and need to look for that podcast on
Quick Nav, if anyone has a link please do send to the list.
eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <[email protected]>
To: "'OS X & iOS Accessibility'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air
Generally on the Mac you press VO Space on an element to confirm, or if
using quick nav both up and down keys together.
Enter will sometimes work as does the spacebar but not always or vice
versa
with some programs.
However if Voiceover is saying you need to restart the likelihood is that
the updates have been applied and pressing enter has worked in this case.
I would suggest that on a mac air some time studying Quick Nav would make
life easier for you. This would avoid having to use commands like vo right
and left arrow and you can instead use the arrow cursor keys by themselves
and as I say up and down arrow together instead of vo spacebar. After a
while pressing up and down arrow together feels like pressing enter on
Windows anyway.
I think you have a Bluetooth keyboard with an IOS device from memory so
the
key shortcuts you would have learnt there should largely also work on
your
Mac Air.
There should be a Podcast on Quick Nav in the David Woodbridge collection
somewhere.
David Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 30 January 2014 14:33
To: OS X & iOS Accessibility
Subject: Re: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air
Thanks Matthew, now I have the keyboard and soft keys sorted, I wonder if
you can tell me how do I do an update. I am told there are 2 updates
available but I do not know how to accept to update. I tried pressing
enter
and it did not do anything then I tried moving about again and then voice
over was saying that I needed to restart after updates so I wondered if
the
updates had actually been done.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Carello" <[email protected]>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Turning Hardware Keys to Software Keys on Mac Book Air
Hello Eleanor. Go into preferences in the apple menu. Choose the keyboard
button. When in there select the keyboard tab and go over to where it
says
use all f1,f2, etc as as standard function keys.checkbox and check it.
if
it is unchecked it just means that you have to use the function key to
the
left of the control key to do the secondary operations for the function
keys. When it is checked you use the function key to use the function
keys
for the operations that are shown on the keys themselves. Hope this
helps.
On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Eleanor Burke <[email protected]>
wrote:
My friend told me that I have to turn my hardware keys to software keys
on my new Mac Book Air. How do I do this? If I do it can it be
reversed? She has a Mac but has forgotten how it is done! I only know
at present how to turn on and off my Mac Book Air and how to connect to
my home wi-fi so sorry for basic questions at this stage.
Eleanor
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