Hello Carolyn, Phil, and Others On any MacBook, MacBook Pro, or other laptops such as the earlier PowerBook and iBook series, the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys can be accessed by pressing the Fn key in conjunction with the Arrow keys. The easy way to check this for yourself is by turning on VoiceOver's keyboard help (VO-K), then hold down the Fn key and press each of the arrow keys in succession. You'll hear:
Fn+Left Arrow "Home" Fn+Right Arrow "End" Fn+Up Arrow "Page Up" Fn+Down Arrow "Page Down" and, if I can add a couple of other keys on the right side of the laptop keyboard, pressed together with the Fn key: Fn+Delete "Forward Delete" Fn+Return "Enter" The consequences of this are that commands to go to the beginning or end of a list or table, like VO-Home and VO-End, or VO-Shift-Home and VO-Shift-End to move to the first or last word in a list or table with scrolling, is that a laptop user, after interacting, will use: VO+Fn+Left Arrow to move to the first visible word in a list, table, or web page VO+Fn+Right Arrow to move to the last visible word in a list, table, or web page In a table like the Mail messages table or the Songs table of iTunes, where the list is longer than the visible page, you will want to use scrolling to move to the actual start or end of the list, and will also need to press the Shift key with this combination: VO+Fn+Shift+Left Arrow to move to the first word in a list or table with scrolling VO+Fn+Shift+Right Arrow to move to the last word in a list or table with scrolling after interacting with said list or table. Other consequences of the Fn key usage are that when using TextEdit on a Mac laptop, you can use: Fn+Down Arrow to move down a page in a document Fn+Up Arrow to move up a page in a document Fn+Delete to forward delete a character All these Fn+key combinations for laptops are specific to Mac OS X, and do not depend on using VoiceOver. HTH Cheers, Esther Carolyn wrote: > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
