Hi: Idem chooser is for the web. If you've properly imported your contacts in address book, which is a pain in the butt, you should have a table with all of your contacts listed as rows. You interact with the table, and vo down arrow to read each card. On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote:
> Ok; I think I am not getting something here. I'm in addressbook on my > macAir and I brought up item chooser; it said 30 items; I started typing > gary and it said go left. What did I not do? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "erik burggraaf" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:57 AM > Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions > > > Hi, see comments below. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in > person, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2010-11-04, at 11:12 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > >> 1. I need to know how to efficiently navigate calendar and addressbook. >> In >> calendar for example, when I do control shit t and then get my date I want >> to view entered, I hear nothing and when I vo right or left, I'm back to >> today's date. Also, entering appointments is weird for me because I >> haven't >> quite figured out how to know whether I'm on the month chooser, the day or >> the year, and then we add in the time. It doesn't seem to be consistent >> that one right arrow takes me to month, 2 to day, 3 to year and 4 to time. >> Yeh, I'm not really sure how to help with this. I'm sure I have the >> answer but not really how to communicate it. The inconsistancy in the >> date and time control could be because it remembers where you left off. >> so, if you only set the month and the day for an appointment, when you get >> back to the date control it will still be on day instead of starting back >> at year. It's definitely not inconsistant so something in the logic of >> how these things work is off. > >> I am still at a loss to efficiently navigate to a contact in addressbook. >> I'm at such a loss, in fact, I can't even tell you what I can't do, smile! >> This one is easy. Press vo I for the item chooser menu. You can then >> start typing. If you type the first few letters of any piece of info the >> item chooser will pull up everything that has that info. Typing lie will >> give you all the liebergs. Typing mar will give you all the marlenas and >> margarets and marys. Even if you have hundreds or thousands of contacts, >> the item chooser will still get you to the vcard you want in seconds. If >> you then want their work phone, go back to the item chooser and type work. >> If you want their home address go to the item chooser and type home. The >> item chooser may in fact be even more useful in calendar and address book >> than it is in safari, and that is really saying something. > >> 2. Occasionally I need to copy then paste things from a website, such as >> a >> recipe. I cannot consistently do this. Sometimes shift downarrow works >> and >> sometimes it does not. > There are two ways to do this. > One, press control option shift C when you hear something you want to rip > off of the webpage. This is the copy last phrase to clipboard option. It's > pretty intuitive and will often scoop up large blocks of text for you > without having to do anything. > If that fails, press control option enter and then control option left and > right arrows to select text word by word. Once all the text is selected, > press control option enter again and then command c to copy. I'm not real > kean on that method and try to use control option shift C whenever possible. >> I would also love to know how to jump to the next >> block of unlinked text. In Window-Eyes, I simply press x which moves me >> by >> blocks of unlinked text. >> I had to look this one up. Turns out it is control option command p. For >> a complete list of html navigation commands, go to safari and press >> control option shift F. Then you can arrow down a menu with all of them >> listed. > > > Hope this helps. > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
