My wife, who uses a Mac without VoiceOver because she can, pointed out
something interesting today. Apparently, VO announces menu access
shortcuts in a different order than the symbols are presented on the
screen. For instance, in Mail, for Forward (on the Message menu) VO says
Command-Shift-F, while the graphic shows the symbol for Shift first,
then the pinwheel-like symbol for Command, then the F. In the thirteen
years I've used VO with MacOS, starting with Leopard and then Snow
Leopard, I've never known or noticed this. In fact, I've never bothered
to learn the shapes of the graphic symbols for Shift (which I think is
an up-pointing arrow), Command (the pinwheel), Option (which I think is
a wavy line or lines), or Control (which I don't know at all). Would
appreciate some confirmation and claraification on those. But isn't it
interesting that VO reads them in a different order, which means it's
not really reading anything at all--it's just reading the text from a
symbols dictionary for certain things.
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