Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Esther wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
