OK, here's what you do.
Firwstly and foremost, bring up Safari.
Now, there's a little gotcha to this. Let me see if I can explain this.
The problem you're gonna have is Under the voiceover utility, there is a
category called commanders. Now, you have a fourth tab under there called
quick nav. The problem is If you simply go under here and check the box to
enable quick nav, what this does is, it sets things so that quick nav is by
default enabled. This would mean it would be as if you had hit the
left/right arrows together and turned it on. Now that it's enabled you can
also vo+down in this screen and tell it to use single letter navigation.
Now this all looks great doesn't it. Well, there's a little catch to this
though that most people don't think about.
Maybe I'm just too thorough, but I caught this issue pretty well, right
away.
Here's the thing. If you enable quick nav through here. You're doing it
globally.
In other words, If you enable quick nav through here, that's gonna turn it
on regardless! where in lion you are. this can be incredibly! annoying!
There surely are some apps you don't want/need quick nav enabled. Well, so
fine, turn it off in those apps. Yeah, you say that... then try going back
to Safari, and watch. There goes your quick nav in there, too. Now your
letter nav doesn't work anymore.
So, what's the sollution? Simple!
What I've! done, personally, is I've opened up Safari, then made an Activity
and attached it to Safari individually. Then when setting it up, I chose to
keep other settings. It's a check box in there. Once I checked that box
under the activity category, I hit vo+right arrow, and went over to quick
nav and checked the box. Then I hit vo+space on the set quick nav button.
Now in here, I told it to use Quick nav, and letter navigation. Then I
attached the activity to safari.app. So, now, what happens is, if I am not
in Safari, quick nav isn't on. the minute I either launch it, or command
tab, or whatever into it, magically, Quick nav now is enabled and my single
letters work.
One more thing to know.
If you have quick nav on in Safari, then as soon as you reach a text box,
say like the google search box, or say, a place to enter on a form your
name, etc. If you have quick nav on but single letter off, this problem
won't exist, same goes if quick nav's off totally. but if quick nav, *and!*
single letter are on, as most people would probably want it to be, then,
what you're gonna have to do is, you're gonna have to, once vo is focused on
the text box, then, vo+shift+down arrow, and interact with the text box. I
know, normally, you don't interact with text boxes, but trust me with this.
If you don't do that first, then voiceover is going to intercept everything
you type as a quick nav command. When done typing, stop interacting with
vo+shift+up arrow, then you're on your merry way, and can continue
navigating as normal.
The final thing is, when quick nav and single letter both are on, if you
vo+space, or up+down arrow, either/or, on a popup menu in a web site, be
aware that first letter navigation won't work. For this, I suggest once the
box is opened and dropped down, hit left+right arrows to turn off quick nav.
Hit your first letter navigation or whatever, pick your option with
vo+space, then turn quick nav back on with left+right arrows. Again, that's
only if you obviously want! to use first letter nav in a popup that may be
really big.
Otherwise, don't worry about it.
Hope this helps.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "chad baker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:20 PM
Subject: single letter navigation
hi is there a way to do single letter navigation can't find it
thanks
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