HI Gene, Jonathan, and Others, I select non-contiguous items in a different fashion, and use VO- Command-Space to choose tracks after turning off cursor tracking. This method works for selecting items in Finder and other lists, columns, etc. If you're in iTunes, and have already interacted with the songs table and are positioned at your first selection, start at step 3:
1. Interact with the table, column, etc. (VO-Shift-Down Arrow) 2. Navigate to the first item you want to select 3. Turn off cursor tracking (VO-Shift-F3) 4. Navigate to each additional item you want and select with VO- Command-Space 5. Turn cursor tracking back on (VO-Shift-F3) 6. Perform your selected action (Copy, Add to Playlist, etc.) Here are some other tips: • You can check your selection at any time with VO-F6 • VO-Command-Space is a toggle action that can be used to de-select as well as to select, and the item you have selected or deselected will get announced each time you perform the command. So, if you checked your selection with VO-F6 and discovered there was an item you didn't mean to select, just navigate to it and use VO-Command-Space again to de-select the item. • If you are going through a long list of items, I find it easiest to lock my VoiceOver keys (VO-Semi-Colon); then I typically just go up and down the list with my arrow keys and press Command-Space to select or de-select items and press F6 to check selections. I unlock my VoiceOver keys by pressing Semi-Colon when I'm done. Of course, other navigation commands, such as moving to the top or bottom of a list with VO-Home or VO-End (VO-Fn-Shift-Left arrow and VO-Fn-Shift-RIght arrow) also work. So for Gene, if I were in the iTunes songs table and wanted to move through a long list tracks to make selections, I'd start out in the song name column, after having first winnowed down the list by using the File Browser (toggled on or off with Command-B) or the search text field to shorten the list of interest by matching to a specific album, artist, or other search term, and move to my first selection. Then I would do: 1. Turn cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3) 2. Lock VoiceOver keys (VO-Semi-colon) 3. Arrow up or down to items of interest and select with Command-Space 3a. Optionally check selections with F6; modify selections by arrowing to the desired item and deselect with Command-Space 4. Unlock VoiceOver keys by pressing Semi-colon 5. Turn cursor tracking on (VO-Shift-F3) 6. Perform the action you want, e.g. New playlist from selection with Command-Shift-N; Add to Playlist with VO-Shift-M and select from the contextual menu, etc. You can also bookmark the quick tip about this from the lioncourt.com site: http://www.lioncourt.com/2008/04/09/mac-cessibility-quick-tip-12/ This is, indeed discussed in the archives, and you can also read my post: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg36686.html (Selecting non-contiguous items) I couldn't quite use Jonathan's commands in iTunes. HTH Cheers, Esther On Jul 24, 2009, at 08:52, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > 1. Turn off cursor tracking. (VO-shift-F3) > 2. Go to first item to select and select it (VO-Return) > 3. Go to additional rows and select with (VO-shift-space) > 4. Turn Cursor tracking back on (VO-shift-F3) > > You can hear the selected items with vo-shift-F6. I was on the USAJOBS > web site yesterday picking out local job locations in 3 states, oh boy > was that fun, but the same principles worked there. > > Jon > > On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:40 PM, gene wrote: > >> >> Hi I have a similar question, and I know this has been asked before, >> but >> let's say I want to select a few songs from an alvum but not >> everything else >> in between, How can I do that, it doesn't seem to matter whither I >> do shift >> up arrow or down arrow it just keeps selecting more stuff and of >> course it >> doesn't tell you exactly what I've selected but I can't seem to find >> a way >> to select just the songs I want as well as everything else. >> Gene >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
