Wow!!!!! Esther,
Thank you so very much for taking the time to compile all of this wonderful information. This is excellent. I hope I may return the favor someday. Most Sincerely, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 3:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question Hello Mark, You wrote: > > I have a question about Safari: > > Is there a way to maximize the size of the Safari Windows so that it > takes > up more of the Desktop than it does when it is supposed to be sizable? > Currently, regardless of whether I select the Zoom button, I cannot > get the > Safari Windows to fill most of the display screen. I haven't yet upgraded to Snow Leopard, but for any application window you should be able to navigate to the Zoom button and use Control- Option-Space to expand the window to match your display. In the case of Safari, it may be that it does not expand the window beyond what is required to remove the horizontal scroll bar. If you wish to expand beyond that, it is possible to manually move and resize windows, and this is described in the Appendix (page 108) of the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide for Leopard (PDF file). To manually resize windows with VoiceOver: 1. Press Control-Option-Tilde, where the "Tilde" key is the shifted key to the left of the number "1" and just below the escape key at the left side of your keyboard. (That is, you're holding down four keys: Control, Option, Shift, and the (Grave) Accent key). You should hear VoiceOver say "Resize window". 2. Then use the arrow keys to make the window taller, shorter, wider, or narrower. Use Shift with the arrow keys to resize in smaller increments. 3. Press Escape to stop resizing the window. To move windows with VoiceOver: 1. Press Control-Option-(Grave) Accent (the same sequence as above, with no Shift key) 2. Then use the arrow keys to move the window. Use Shift with the arrow keys to move in smaller increments. 3. Press Escape to stop moving the window. There's an alternative setup with the "Zoom" option under the Universal Access menu that low vision users can use. I'm sure there is a spiffer way to do this with gestures, and I know you can use either the scroll wheel or enable a two-finger scroll on the trackpad to zoom without going through the Universal Access menu, but I set this up for someone a long time ago (smile). In these instructions, "VO" means hold down the VoiceOver Control and Option keys. 1. Go to System Preferences under the Apple menu (VO-M to the menu bar; arrow down, press "s y" to go to "System Preferences") and press Enter 2. In the System Preferences window, navigate (e.g., tab, use VO-right arrow, or bring up item chooser menu (VO-I) and press "u n i") to the Universal Access button an press (VO-Space). 3. In the Universal Access window, VO-Right to the "Seeing" tab and select it (with VO-Space) if it is not already selected. 4. Navigate (VO-Right Arrow) to the "Zoom" radio button and use VO- Space to turn on zoom. 5. Navigate to the "Options" button and press (VO-Space). 6. Set the range for maximum and minimum zoom (up to factor of 20) by interacting with each slider and using your arrow keys. This is the default zoom applied when your press Command-Option-"=" to zoom in. Continuing to press or tap the "=" button while the Command and Option keys are held down increases the zoom. 7. I set up these options with "Smooth images" checked and "When zoomed in, the screen image moves" "only when the pointer reaches an edge" for someone who only wanted a mild zoom. There are other options you can check, such as having zoom follow the keyboard focus. You can also activate a scroll wheel on a mouse. Press enter, or navigate to the "Done" button and use VO-Space to commit selections. 8. On the Universal Access menu, check the boxes the enable assistive devices and to show universal access status in the menu bar. (The latter is not needed, but I use it to check whether zoom is on or whether other features, such as mouse keys -- sometimes used to move to locations where VoiceOver does not have a "hook" -- is enabled.) 9. Use Command-W to close the window when done. Now with the zoom feature enabled, you can use Command-Option-"=" to zoom in and Command-Option-"-" to zoom out around focused regions. Turn zoom on or off with Command-Option-8. HTH. Great progress, and let us know if you have more questions. I enjoy reading all your posts on the VIPhone list. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
