I haven't figured out a way around the limitation. Generally the menu
items will trump space used by the status menu items (menu extras) so
depending on how many of those you have and how many menus your app is
and how wide your screen is, some of the status items will just
disappear. This is not just an accessibility problem as nobody can reach
the hidden status items. I have this problem on our Mac mini at home
which is hooked to a regular old tube TV, so we run it at very low
resolutions (800x600 or 1024x768). So depending on what's running, menu
status items often no longer fit. I did try to pare down the number of
items as much as possible. One thing that helped was to set the "Show
fast user switching menu" to Icon in the Users & Groups system
preference, if you use that. By default it listed my full name next to
the clock, sucking up a lot of horizontal space. The only thing I could
turn up was a couple apps like AccessMenuBar and NoMenuBar which
basically are apps that have just one tiny menu, allowing the status
items to expand most of the way across. Article from 2012 here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1166028/accessmenubarapps_lets_you_see_hidden_menu_bar_icons.html
CB
On 4/24/14, 6:38 PM, Vic wrote:
Any ideas, anybody? :)
On Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:08:13 PM UTC-7, Vic wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that VoiceOver does not allow reaching the status menu
items that do not fit on the screen. For example, if my screen
only fits a certain number of status menu icons, I seem not to be
able to beyond them, i.e. activate the ones that are off-screen
and need to be scrolled to.
Any ideas if this can be resolved?? I'd like to avoid closing some
of my running apps if I don't have to.
Thanks,
Vic
PS This is on Mac OS (Maverick).
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