Hey Chris, Hope you're doing well buddy. You can also, unless it's changed, use your arrow keys to expand and collapse those categories. Give that a shot.
Matt Dierckens Certified Assistive technology specialist Macintosh trainer Canadian phone: 5199629140 U.S. Phone: 5734011018 Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 25, 2015, at 11:03, E.T. <[email protected]> wrote: > > VO-Command-\ > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > [email protected] > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? > >> On 6/25/2015 7:41 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >> Guys, >> I confess, I really haven't had a need to fool much with asking this >> question in the past, but lately as I'm doing more with my mac, I'm >> finding it to be a bit of an annoyance. >> I'm going to use a particular example in this message, however, realize >> that I'm not speaking just within ITunes here. I'm speaking just in >> general throughout the whole entire OS. The other night, I was wanting >> to listen to some ITunes internet radio while in bed, seeing that I >> normally keep both my macbooks on the nightstand at the head of my bed. >> So, I got into ITunes internet radio. I located the table near the >> bottom of the screen and interacted as usual. Nothing out of the norm. >> I found the country category, and it obviously was collapsed. So, I did >> the logical thing. I hit vo+backslash and expanded the category. Once >> done, I vo+down arrowed quite a ways to find the station I needed. Once >> I did so, I realized they've removed the station. So I got to thinking, >> maybe it's not in country. Maybe they moved it under folk, or >> something. So, I pressed vo+backslash again to collapse the country >> category. Ding ding ding? It wouldn't let me. I finally realized that >> the reason was because I was down inside the expanded node of the >> branch. In other words, I was inside the expansion. I wasn't sitting >> out on the top level that I expanded earlier. Now, I was down inside >> it. With Windows, it didn't matter. As long as I was underneath the >> branch I wanted to collapse, or was sitting directly on! the branch, I >> could just hit left arrow. On the mac, it doesn't seem to be that >> forgiving. I literally have to be very specifically on the actual item >> which was expanded or collapsed. So, I'm thinking ok, no biggy, just >> hit left arrow. That did no good. Vo+left arrow only took me to the >> previous collumn within the current row of the table which had focus. >> So, the million dollar question: If you're say, 30, 40, 50, or whatever >> rows deep away from the top node of the tree, surely! Apple doesn't >> expect me to sit here and just vo+up arrow 50 to a hundred times, just >> to get back to the top of the node to collapse it, do they? Is there >> not a quicker way to jump back to the top of that branch, so I could >> then hit vo+backslash to collapse it? >> If my question doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll try making an >> audio demo later to better explain. >> Chris. >> >> -- >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[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.
