I've tried to do three things here to perform a drag and drop in Launchpad. 1. Do what you do in IOS which is to hold a finger on an icon until the moving sound is heard then start dragging the app to the new location. This does not work. No moving sound is heard when you try the IOS method. 2. Use the Command-comma and Comma-period method. VoiceOver thinks I am dragging the contents of the window under LaunchPad. In this case it was message content in Mail. I located the app I wanted to move and then pressed command-comma to mark it. Vo gives me "Message content marked for drag and drop". I then use the VO-arrow keys to move the VO cursor to the new location and pressed command-period to drop the app. The problem was that VoiceOver was trying to deal with the content in the application under the LaunchPad window. 3. I moved to the app I wanted to drag using the VO navigation commands and locked the mouse down with the VO-command-shift-space command and moved it to the new location using the keyboard method. The dragging sound was heard while moving but the app did not get dropped in the new location when the mouse lock was released.
Doug On 2011-07-22, at 9:57 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > Strange, i didn't have a problem dragging an app on top of another app in > Launchpad. I managed to create a folder, the problem came after that, when i > couldn't open the folder. I'll look into this again today, i'm sure there's a > way to do it. > I don't experience any sluggishness with mail, but then i have an iMac with > Core7 processor and 8 Gb memory. > Not saying you are wrong, just that i have experienced a different thing than > you. > /Krister > > 21 jul 2011 kl. 23:01 skrev Zachary Kline: > >> Dear MacVisionaries, >> I've just sent the following letter to Apple Accessibility. I hope it >> provides a decent summation of some of the issues we've been experiencing >> with the new OS, and that it will give them a better idea of what sorts of >> things should be looked into when they upgrade the product. >> I'll be sure to forward any response I receive. >> Best, >> Zack. >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Zachary Kline <kli...@onid.orst.edu> >>> Subject: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues >>> Date: July 21, 2011 1:58:13 PM PDT >>> To: Apple Accessibility <accessibil...@apple.com> >>> >>> Dear Apple Accessibility, >>> I have recently upgraded my mid 2010 macbook pro to Lion, and have for the >>> most part been quite pleased with its performance. However, there are a >>> few troubling developments which degrade the overall quality of the >>> experience. >>> THe Launchpad and Mission Control features seem mostly accessible, but >>> there are some omissions which render them less useful than they could be. >>> There seems no way to move applications into folders, or indeed at all, >>> using VoiceOver. Drag and drop does not do the expected thing. Mission >>> Control is somewhat better, but Spaces seem impractical because there is >>> neither any way to delete them nor to move between apps in a single space. >>> Safari and Mail also present accessibility problems. Safari's new >>> downloads popup is not ideal accessibility-wise, and while it works after a >>> fashion the old downloads window was preferable. Similarly, Mail seems >>> sluggish, often reporting that it is busy, especially in the new layout. >>> Drag and drop is inconsistent here as well: the Favorites bar can be added >>> to with the new shortcuts, but Voiceover refuses to drag items which have a >>> press action, thus requiring the old mouse toggling shortcut to remove them. >>> These are a representative sampling of the various issues I've encountered >>> in using Lion with VoiceOver. I hope that at least some of these may be >>> fixed in the near future, as this would greatly improve the usability of >>> the system. >>> Yours sincerely, >>> Zack Kline. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
