I think it was Ricardo Walker who came up with this trick, but I'm drawing a blank myself. I'm reasonably sure you have to turn off trackpad commander with VO-rotor-left (counterclockwise) once you're in the menu. Ricardo or anyone else, can you help??? :)
Teresa On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Teresa, > Thanks for your response. It looks like you have a work around. I tried > having my mouse follow the vo cursor, but I can't get to the growl > preferences. I would love to get my head around this, but I don't succeed. > Could you please describe how you get into the growl preferences on your > machine? All I find is the desktop aliases I created, and if I then double > tap the middle top of the trackpad, the menubar opens. Along the top, I find > its titles for the submenus it contains, and in the far right there is > something labeled go to spotlight menu. I also hovered over a few items in > the status menus, but it seems as if their location is not always the same. > How do you go about it? Now very curious. If you have the trick, it might > also be a solution to open the dropbox app from the menu bar. Interested. > On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> The Growl preferences are now in the menu bar near the clock. I can't seem >> to get to them easily. Right now, I have my mouse cursor following the VO >> cursor in VO preferences. I think I'm going to have the mouse move the VO >> cursor, and that might help with navigating the menu bar better. I hope this >> part of the menu bar becomes more accessible in future, and yes, I will >> write Apple accessibility about this. >> >> Teresa >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >>> Dear listers, >>> >>> I did a clean install of Lion, installed growl 1.3, and unlike in the >>> previous growl version, I can no longer find my preferences for growl. They >>> used to be in the system preferences, Has any of you got growl 1.3 running >>> under a clean lion install? I saw in the growl 1.3 welcome installer >>> screen, that there now is a menubar icon to click to get to the >>> preferences, but there is no mention of them being removes from system >>> prefs. Any ideas how to get to them now? The growl icon seems invisible to >>> voiceover. >>> Paul. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > 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.
