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.
HTH. Josh de Lioncourt …my other mail provider is an owl… Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt Music: http://stage19music.com Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com Blog: http://lioncourtsmusings.blogspot.com GoodReads: http://goodreads.com/Lioncourt 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > 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, >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > > Geen virus gevonden in het binnenkomende-bericht. > Gecontroleerd door AVG - www.avg.com > Versie: 8.5.387 / Virusdatabase: 270.13.18/2243 - datum van > uitgifte: 07/17/09 06:08:00 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---