You made your mistake at the last step.  You want to click the track pad by 
using VO+shift+space.  That'll do it.


Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind 
built-in!

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!

On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Doug Lawlor <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I issue the following commands this is what happens. 
> Press Vo+m+m to focus on the status menu. 
> Vo+arrow to the DropBox icon. 
> Press Vo+Command+f5 to move the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor. 
> Double tap the track pad.
> VoiceOver gives me the following message:
> 
> "Dropbox 2.4.11
> Up to date menu extra Unable to focus keyboard in window: (null)"
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> For a while, it was necessary to option click on the dropbox icon to get 
>> access to the preferences from the context menu. other app icons also 
>> require some creative clicking to access them. I don't know the why or 
>> wherefore of all this, I just know to try various clicks on the icons that 
>> aren't cooperating like control click, option click and so forth.
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2014, at 3:53 PM, William Windels <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> Since some time, I believe since mavericks or perhaps also in 10.8, the 
>>> icons like dropbox , Skype, and other tirdparty apps can't be activated 
>>> with vo+space. But, the icons that are part of the system: time-machine, 
>>> dat/time, user-options... are perfectly accessible with vo+space.
>>> What could be wrong and perhaps: what could be the solution or workaround?
>>> 
>>> Any hints are very welcome
>>> 
>>> kind regards,
>>> William Windels
>>> 
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