Hi Carolyn,
If you have a laptop you can do a control-click by pressing the
control key and clicking with your trackpad button (or on the new
laptops, the whole trackpad acts as a trackpad button, so you press
the trackpad while holding down the control key). If you have a mouse
attached, you can click one of the mouse buttons while holding down
the control key.
Also, Anne mentioned double-clicking on the splitter in mail with the
mouse to remove the Preview pane (in another recent post). I find
that I can use VO-Shift-Space to click or double click in that
instance (hold down the Control, Option, and Shift keys, then tap the
space bar key twice quickly in succession). VO-Shift-Space doesn't
always work as a substitute for a trackpad or mouse click in apps with
transitioning accessibility, but it often does, provided your mouse
cursor is at the same location as your VoiceOver cursor (e.g., use VO-
Command-F5 beforehand). I distinguish between "hardware clicks" --
where you use a mouse button, trackpad, or the "5" key on the numeric
keypad with NumPad Commander activated to click -- and "software
clicks" like VO-Shift-Space (or sometimes VO-Space, where VO-Space
performs the default action and that is sometimes "click"). There are
a lot of instances where you may need to select something by
"clicking" first where VO-Shift-Space will work in place of a
"hardware click". Sometimes you need to route your mouse cursor to
your VoiceOver cursor first (VO-Command-F5). In some cases you can
only click with trackpad or a mouse button.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
Carolyn wrote:
Anne:
I'm following this trying to learn. I feel pretty dumb asking this,
but where is the mouse you click? Is it on the tracking pad? Sorry
for how ridiculous this sounds.
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: Anne Robertson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: Snow Leopard Mail: Message headers
Hello Everett,
There seems to be a focus issue in Snow Leopard, but you can get
round it by navigating to the sender's name then bringing the mouse
cursor to the VO cursor with VO-Command-F5. Then Control-click to
get the contextual menu and it works as before.
Cheers,
Anne
On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:59 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> On Leopard I could interact with the message headers in Mail and
bring up a context menu on the Senders address. That functionality
seems to be missing in Snow Leopard. Am I crazy, has this moved
somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Everett
>
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