Hi Jennifer and Kevin, When you navigate to the dock, menus, or the sidebars of windows, and press the first few letters of the name of an element, focus moves to the first match. In the example Jennifer gave, that means that when she moves to the dock with VO-D or Control-F3, and presses "m", she'll move to the first application with a name beginning with "m". Kevin is correct that typing "m a" quickly will work, since focus will be moved to the first application with a name beginning with "m a".
However, you can reorder applications in the dock. Once you are focused on an application or folder in the dock, such as the Mail application, press Command+Option+Left Arrow and you'll hear VoiceOver announce "Move to left of" <whatever app or folder is immediately to the left>. You can continue to hold down the Command and Option keys and tap the Left arrow (or Right arrow) key to move the application, in this case "Mail", to the left of "Mission Control". This keyboard shortcut of Command+Option+Left or Right Arrow key works in OS X, independently of VoiceOver. In earlier versions of the operating system, you could use this to reorder the dock, but VoiceOver wouldn't announce that you were moving the app, and you would have to use VO+Right arrow or VO+Left arrow to check the new placement. Kevin's suggestion of turning on Keyboard Commander in VoiceOver Utility and pressing Option+M to launch mail is also a good one. (Note that you specify whether you press the right or left option key when you turn on Keyboard Commander, and by default you would have to press Right Option+M to launch mail unless you changed this.) However, if you actively use mail, you can simply press Command+Tab to switch among your currently active applications. (Command+Shift+Tab also works to cycle through your active applications in the reverse direction). HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 11, 2011, at 08:08, Kevin Shaw wrote: > I type "ma" quickly and that works from the dock. Alternatively, if you have > keyboard commander turned on, press Option M to launch mail. Or, you could > also set up a trackpad commander shortcut to launch it quickly. > > > Kevin > On 2011-11-11, at 11:52 AM, Jennifer Perdue wrote: > >> When I go to the doc from lion I press M for mail and get mission control >> (Whatever that is), and then press A hoping it will go to mail. That >> doesn't work. How can I get to mail quicker than just arrowing to it. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks -- 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.
