Anne,
This is an old message but of interest. Specifically, the cursor
tracking when in a chat environment.
If tracking is off, keyboard fozus is on the edit field, and VO is
on the text the other person types, do you hear both spoken or do you
need to use commands? This is new to me and I wish to try a chat soon
with a friend.
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On 1/24/2014 11:32 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Lee,
The keyboard focus is the position of the insertion point, which is shown on
the screen as a tiny line between two characters. This is where your text will
start if you begin typing.
The VoiceOver cursor is shown as a box around an area on the screen and you can
change its size in the VoiceOver utility.
Normally the keyboard focus and the VoiceOver cursor are tied together so that
VoiceOver tells you where you can enter information, but in a chat, you want to
be able to read what the other person has written without moving the insertion
point from the field where you type your reply, so you turn cursor tracking off.
In general, we don't need to worry about the mouse cursor, but some operations
require the mouse to be on a specific element, in which case, you can bring the
mouse cursor to the VO cursor with VO-Cmd-F5 if you don't have the mouse cursor
tied to the other cursors already.
I prefer not to have my mouse cursor tied to the other cursors as I find it can
cause some irritating jumping around.
Mouse keys allows you to pilot the mouse using either the numpad or the letter
keys on the righthand side of the keyboard.
In VoiceOver utility, you can tell VO to speak the text under the mouse with no
delay so that you can hear where your mouse pointer is. Moving the mouse
pointer in this way can make some elements accessible which the VoiceOver
cursor can't reach.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 Jan 2014, at 02:40, Lee Jones <leejones...@sky.com> wrote:
Dear List I don't understand the difference between keyboard focus and voice
over cursor. What can you do with one that you can't do withthe the other? Do
people find mouse keys useful? There are shortcuts for mouse up mouse down,
double click etc but I am not sure what they would be used for. In setttings is
it best to have keyboard focus vo cursor and mouse pointer following each other
or moving separately? I am running mavericks.
Many Thanks, Lee
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