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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
