VoiceOver supports assigning Braille display keys to Voiceover
commands. Also, you do not need to hands to necessarily perform
VoiceOver functions, as there is a Control-Option lock which causes
the system to interpret all commands as if they are VO ones.
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On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:13 AM, a radix wrote:
> Hello, Thanks a lot for all the information, Esther. Are there any
> new macbook laptops with a numeric keypad? I have actually never
> used a laptop that has one, but from your post I gathe ryou can also
> use numeric commander to put shortcuts on other keys then the
> numeric keys if they are not available? I think a laptop with a
> numeric keypad would be nice though, and I am still hoping and
> thinking I could put shortcuts on my braille display as well.
> Thanks again,
> Greetings, Anouk,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Esther
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: does reading on the mac take two hands?
>
> Hi Anouk,
>
> Although you use the VoiceOver keys (Control and Option) for
> navigation, you can lock these keys on with VO-semi-colon (Control-
> Option-Semi-colon). Then any commands you issue assume that the
> VoiceOver keys (Control and Option) are engaged until your press
> semi-colon again. Many people lock their VoiceOver keys while
> reading long pages.
>
> Another alternative is to use NumPad Commander (with Leopard). This
> is a functionality that uses the numeric keypad to pre-program
> shortcuts for the most common VoiceOver commands. You need to use
> either a full keyboard, an older Mac laptop with embedded numeric
> keypad, or a current Mac laptop with either attached numeric keypad
> or keyboard with numeric keypad in order to use NumPad Commander.
> Or, as I've just posted, you may be able to use the free NumberKey
> app on an iPhone to use your iPhone as a numeric keypad that works
> with NumPad Commander shortcuts. You can customize NumPad Commander
> with your own shortcut definitions as well as using their standard
> set.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Esther
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 03:44, william lomas wrote:
>
>> you have to use control option and arrow keys, to navigate around
>>
>> On 17 Jul 2009, at 14:31, a radix wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone, ok this may sem elike a strange question but I
>>> read that, if you want to navigate through a window to review it,
>>> or a document for example you need to use the voice key (which is
>>> either command or control if i got that right)+ arrow down or up,
>>> but would tha tnot require both hand and is there a way to do it
>>> single handedly. I use braille all the time and this would make it
>>> a lot slower for me to read stuff, or will maybe the arrow keys on
>>> my braille display be able to simulate this, i Wonder.
>>> Greetings, Anouk,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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