Hi Esther, thanks for this info. I knew that there are some gestures that are different from or not present on the iPhone, so I'm sure I'll find the help section very useful.
I'm really surprised that there isn't a way to open an email message using the trackpad. that seems like a major oversight, particularly given that this obviously works on the iPhone. It's interesting, too, because doubletapping does work for opening an app. But, at least I know I wasn't missing something, either in regards to this or having all columns of the messages table read (another major oversight imho) Cheers, Donna On Jul 9, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Donna, > > 1. There's a section in the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide (Chapter 11 on > Using VoiceOver Gestures) that describes using TrackPad Commander. Use VO-H > to bring up the help menu and press "g" to go to the "Getting Started Guide" > and return. Open the web item rotor with VO-U and press "g e s" to get the > two relevant sections (Chapter 11 and Appendix A listing the Commands and > Gestures). If you want the list of standard gestures, go directly to Appendix > A and navigate to the section on "VoiceOver standard gestures". (I'd use VO-U > for the web rotor and press "s t".) A lot of these will be familiar to you > from using the iPhone, but there are some other ones like going to the dock > or menu bar (two finger double tap near bottom or top of trackpad), or > opening the application or window chooser menus (two finger double tap along > left or right sides of the trackpad), and changing how VoiceOver reads text > (word, line, sentence, paragraph) by pressing the Command key while your > finger touches the trackpad, that are different. > > 2. I don't know of a way to get all the columns in the messages table > announced at once with TrackPad commander. > > 3. I press return to open a message in mail > > I'm probably not the best person to answer your questions. Maybe somebody > else can give you better answers. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 07:18, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've finally decided to spend some time messing with the trackpad commander, >> and have a couple of questions. >> >> 1. Is there any way to view a list of commands? when I go into the assign >> Commands table I can see the gestures, but none of the commands are >> displayed. >> >> 2. How do I navigate in Mail? Single-finger flicking takes me out of the >> messages table unless I interact, and if I interact, VO only reads the >> column that I'm on. I'd like to be able to hear all columns like I do when >> not using the trackpad commander. >> >> 3. How do I open a message in mail? I would have thought you would do this >> with a double-tap like on the iPhone, but that isn't working. >> Thanks, >> Donna > > -- > 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.
