Hi Brett, One of the things using a hotspot is good for is taking care of the bug in Preview where you lose your place if you switch applications in the middle of reading. This is annoying, because VoiceOver's losing where you were seems to be a bug with the way focus is handled associated with the change in Leopard to support continuous view mode in the PDF display. You can create a hotspot before you switch apps as a work-around, and use the hotspot feature when you return to reading your PDF in Preview. Your place will be saved with the other temporary information that the hotspot tracks. This won't be preserved if you turn VoiceOver off and on. Another feature of Preview that I like a lot is the ability to bookmark pages in a document. Then, when you want to read up about hotspots, or non- contiguous selection, or some other topic you've bookmarked, you can navigate to the Bookmarks menu of Preview's menu bar (VO-M; press "b") and arrow down to find your bookmark. Your document will be located, and opened to that page (you don't even have to locate in or open it -- Preview will do it for you).
Cheers, Esther On Jun 3, 2009, at 18:09 , Brett Campbell wrote: > > I've read about the hotspots in the manual, but somehow your > explanation made it clearer to me. I can think of a few areas this > will be helpful. Thank you. > > Brett > > > On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:36 PM, James Dietz wrote: > >> >> Regarding the first question: Not sure how to get the ticking to >> return. I've never actually heard ticking sounds for anything other >> than the Apple Software Update progress - all other ones are quiet >> with VO. Maybe I've inadvertantly turned it off, as I think >> softwareupdate logs in under another account when it's doing it's >> dirty work. Second question: you can try setting up the download >> progress area as a hotspot. Press vo+shift+number (any number up to 9 >> maybe) to save a hotspot (when your vo cursor is on the progress >> bar), >> and press vo+cmd+number to have vo "describe" the item at that >> particular hotspot. Vo+Number moves focus to the hotspot. This >> doesn't >> work with some things *ahem song name in itunes ahem*, but it's >> pretty >> neat otherwise. >> >> James >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
