Hi Kirsten. I've only had my Mac Book Pro since July 17, so I'll see how many of your questions I can answer. I'll leave the harder ones to those who know more than me.
More than one person has welcomed you to the growing crowd of blind Mac/iPhone/iPad users. I would like to join them in welcoming you. I have been using VO J when I land on an email I want to hear. I also have pressed the return key on one I wanted to hear. Soneone said there was a problem with using the return key, but I forgot what that was. Lately, I have tried turning VoiceOver off for a few seconds with command f5. This sometimes has worked for me when a program says it's busy or I hear the fan come on like it did yesterday. Finder got busy and wouldn't shut up. I turned VoiceOver off for a few seconds, and it stopped doing it. My computer was getting a little warm above the keyboard, and it stopped doing that, too, when I did this procedure. Sometimes going full screen has gotten things back for me that I thought was lost. I got lost a lot in the beginning because I hadn't a clue about what I was doing, except for having a lot of computer experience. Sometimes I try VO plus the arrow keys. You might be in the toolbar or something like that. In some programs like TextEdit, VoiceOver may say scroll area; in the case of Numbers, it says layout area. In the beginning, I did not know that I had to interact on that if I wanted to type in files. If you have Numbers on your Mac, you have to interact twice, the second time on the table it talks about. You didn't exactly ask about that, but I wanted to point about interacting. Interacting is where you are restricting the VoiceOver cursor to the area you want to be in like maybe your email message or a word processing document you are working on in TextEdit. You may, and probably did, get yourself uninteracted, and that may be how you got lost in your email message you mentioned. > I have on my computer somewhere a file that Apple sent me which lists Mac > keyboard commands. I will try to find it for you. VoiceOver usually obeys > Macintosh commands, too. Let me see if I can get this right like one of my > teachers at Apple told me which really got me started on word processing > commands, and it works in most programs (like it's supposed to.) The command key pressed with left and right arrows go to the end of the line or the beginning of the line; the command key with the up and down arrows go either to the top of the file or to the bottom; no fn key needed. The option key plus right arrow or left arrows go by words. If you add in the shift key, then you are selecting by those same things. Shift plus down arrow selects by paragraphs. > The insertion point moves with the VO cursor, so it's not like it is on the > iPhone. Although you can change it, VoiceOver handles things differently than > Windows. If you hear a letter and you are going forward, you've already > passed it. If you are going backward, then it's to the right. You'll have to > play with it, and it drove me crazy at first. But I got used to it. Now that I've written a novel, I hope I have been of some help. Regards, Gigi -- 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.
