Control is like a caret

On 4/4/22, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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