Press and hold VO and rotate two fingers to the left.
On 12.2.2021. 08:52, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
I have a touchpad on my Macbook Air, and I hate it. It causes me to hold
my hands in an awkward elevated position when typing just to make sure I
don't brush across it.
On Windows 10 the touchpad can be turned off, but not on Mac. Very, very
annoying.
Best,
Janina
Brandon Olivares writes:
Honestly I enjoy the TouchBar. I don’t use it a lot but I do find it helpful
occasionally.
Just a tip, if it stops responding, restarting VoiceOver can sometimes help, or
switching out of and back into the application you’re in.
Also, I thought I heard Touch Bar is being discontinued, so you may not have to
deal with it for long.
Brandon
“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” – Satan, from Milton’s Paradise
Lost
On Feb 3, 2021, at 8:04 PM, Yuma Decaux <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
After a few months of my macbook 16 inch in heavy rotation, I have to be frank
with the touch bar. It's an utterly useless, cluttery, annoying piece of tech
which has no place where it sits. Everything else is world class, as expected
from Apple. I just don't know why they tried squeezing this useless
touchscreen, with my 2 cents on why below:
1-It's not reactive at all. Sometimes, it does not react or speak anything nno
matter what I do. To solve this, sometimes I just keep moving my finger across
left to right until hopefully something occurs. By that time, it really doesn't
matter whether a touchbar is there or not.
2-It always gets in the way when I type. Keeps announcing f12 as my finger
barely even brushes (or does my finger brush that area?). Just like cabs, the
touch screen is never there when needed, always there when not.
3-The haptic part, obviously, is pretty much a foregone design flaw for blind
users like myself.
The reason I did not upgrade from an older macbook was because of the keyboards
they had for a while, and the touchbar. Once my macbook was pretty much beyond
retirement, my only choice was to have the greatest of the portable. I feel a
bit cheated here, particularly knowing that the intel chip inside might
actually not have the capacity to wake the touchbar up in a reactive way.
That's it, now I'm happy to get back to work.
Yuma
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