Hi. Firstly, as to interacting, you only really have to do that when there are things inside the item you’re on, like toolbars, to access the tools inside this “bar” thing… or if there’s like, a lot of text, you can interact to view it more closely. Think of interacting as looking closer, perhaps. For example, you wouldn’t need to really “check out” that button because well, its just there and all its secrets, its text, and its being a button, is all there, and there’s nothing inside it. But lets say you’re on the Audiogames forum and you’re looking for the forum you want to read, maybe the off-topic room. So you go to the heading that says off-topic room and try to click it, but nothing happens. This is because there are multiple items within this heading, and you have to examine it closer to see what’s stopping your clicking of it. Perhaps you could think of it like this, too. If there are multiple items within an item, you have to interact to find the specific item you want to click. Also, you don’t have to use the voiceover cursor all the time. You can tab and shift-tab through the system just as you would on windows, and use the regular up and down arrows in programs like mail, to go through messages, and to read message text. When you use the arrow keys and tab, you don’t have to interact with the item if it usually does need interaction. Devin Prater [email protected]
On Jul 5, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, I have been coming to terms with a Mac for over 6 weeks now on a > daily basis and a little before that from time to time. However there are > some concepts I really cannot come to work out which by now should be fairly > obvious to me. Hope someone can clarify these for me. > > At this point I would like to say I have good experience of Windows and it is > because of this I am finding some of these Mac concepts difficult rather than > them being intuitive. > > Here goes then, > > 1. I think as a rule of thumb quic nav is mainly used for navagating the web > but not otherwise. Is this correct? > 2. While I know that single key navagation can be used with the tab key, I > cannot work out when I need to tab and when I need to vo right arrow. > 3. Interacting and uninteracting, I just don't know when and when not to do > this. When someone has guided me they have said to interact and now > uninteract, left to my own devices I cannot make a decision as to when to > interact and when not to. > > Sorry if these are silly questions but I think once I have clarification on > these I will have moved forward quite a pace with my Mac. > <--- 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. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- 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. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
