This is absolutely awesome! Thank you very much for the info! --
Jenny Wood Phone: (972) 989-3894 Email: [email protected] Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> 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. 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