Ok, under universal access, I was able to turn the option key 5 times toggle for mouse keys to on. There doesn't have to be a mouse connected to use this, great!
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Darren, > > O believe that the option you checked to "Show Universal Access status in the > menu bar" is meant to display your current settings for information purposes > rather than provide a short menu of options you can change. I have this > option selected to check status, for example, when I activate features like > Mouse Keys and want to check whether they are turned on or off. If you > actually want to change the options that are dimmed, after you navigate to > this menu with VO+mm, press "u" to navigate to the "Universal Access > Preferences…" menu option, which should be undimmed, then press "Return". > This should bring up the "Universal Access" menu under "System Preferences", > and you can make any changes that you want there. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jun 18, 2011, at 05:02, Darren Westlake GMail wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have gone into universal preferances and ticked the box which gives quick >> access to the unversal preferances in the toolbar; all I need to do is press >> VO + MM. Now this does take me to the universal preferances quick drop down >> menu, but for some reason VO announces "Dimmed" when reading the option and >> therefore I'm not able to quickly select one of the options. I have tried >> for a while now to correct this, but with no success. I'm a new Mac user so >> I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on this issue. >> >> Many thanks in antisipation. >> >> Darren Westlake >> > > -- > 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.
