Hi Justin, What specifically were the problems you're having with Safari?
Later… On 2011-07-22, at 2:07 AM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Austin, > > Thank you a million times. This is wonderful. This set of hotspots aught to > come included with Voiceover. I can't believe I didn't think of that. > > As soon as I return to Lion this will be the first thing I set up. I have > restored my system from my backup drive and am now on Snow leopard. I want to > install the Safari 5.1 update for Snow Leopard to see if the annoying issues > I am having are due to the new version of safari or something else in Lion. > I'm probably staying with SL until this gets fixed in some way. The other > little quirks I can live with but safari was killing me. > > Thanks again for the idea, I am saving this message in a folder of Lion tips. > > Justin > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > > Activities have some great potential. You can make any VoiceOver settings > application specific. For example, I created a new activity called Mail,. I > enabled hot spots, and checked Mail in the applications. I then quit the VO > utility and went to Mail. This uses the new mail view in Lion, but you can do > the same for the old. I went to the mailboxes table but did not interact with > it, and hit Vo-shift-1 to set a hot spot there. I then went to the message > column and interacted. I went over to the messages table and without > interacting, hit Vo-shift-2 to set a second hot spot. I then went over to the > message content and did the same with Vo-shift-3. Now I have three hot spots > specific to mail that take me to three common areas in the main window > accessible with vo-1, vo-2, and vo-3. Nice and simple. > > It always confused me before that you could only have ten hot spots for the > whole system, and I didn't use them much. Now activities allow for much > greater fine-tuning of the VoiceOver experience. I have a feeling some > shortcuts already exist to do these things, but if nothing else it > demonstrates a new and powerful way to use hot spots and activities to make > the new mail program a little easier. I wonder if APple will begin making > application specific activities of their own in the future which come with > VoiceOver. They enrich the experience. > > - Austin > PS: I also made a Terminal activity without quick nav, to allow full use of > the arrows. I also set the punctuation level to most, perfect for picking out > Unix weirdness. WOnderful! > > -- > 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. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- 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.
