Hi Chris, A great VoiceOver shortcut to learn is VO-Shift-C for "Last phrase copied to pasteboard". You can move over a menu item and, just after VoiceOver has announced it, press VO-Shift-C. If you open a TextEdit window or are in Mail, etc., pasting with Command-V will give you the exact phrase that was spoken. You may need to delete extraneous words or blank spaces at the end from the pasted phrase, which is why using an intermediate TextEdit window to work with the phrase can be a good idea. Then, when you want to assign a keyboard shortcut, you can select your phrase, copy it with Command-C, and paste it in with Command-V in the field for typing in the Menu command.
This is also a great shortcut to use when you're communicating with someone who is trying to troubleshoot your error messages -- you can get an exact copy of that obscure sounding message and paste it into a mail message. HTH Cheers, Esther Chris Polk wrote: > > Hi: > I'm hoping I am just missing something here. > I am trying to creat shortcut keys in some programs like adium. I have > one working that jumps right to set facebook status, but only because > a friend told me how the menu item was written exactly. > I am unable to read letter by letter in a menu so I can set these. > Setting up things like this will make things quicker, example, answer > a call in skype, or anything that requires you to go through a menu > that doesn't have a hotkey allready. > > Any help would be appreciated! > > Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
