Hello Bill and Others, May I ask whether you have turned cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3) before you started to do your non-contiguous selection with VO-Command-Space bar? This is usually the stumbling point for users, and the other point of confusion is forgetting to turn cursor tracking back on with another VO-Shift-F3 when you're done. Has this changed in Lion?
Just to be on the safe side, I'll summarize the sequence for non-contiguous selection. You can substitute TrackPad gestures to interact, etc. if you like (e.g. VO+two finger swipe : 1. Interact with the table, column, etc. (VO-Shift-Down Arrow) 2. Navigate to the first item you want to select 3. Turn off cursor tracking (VO-Shift-F3) 4. Navigate to each additional item you want and select with VO- Command-Space 5. Turn cursor tracking back on (VO-Shift-F3) 6. Perform your selected action (Copy, Add to Playlist, etc.) Here are some other tips: • You can check your selection at any time with VO-F6 • VO-Command-Space is a toggle action that can be used to de-select as well as to select, and the item you have selected or deselected will get announced each time you perform the command. So, if you checked your selection with VO-F6 and discovered there was an item you didn't mean to select, just navigate to it and use VO-Command-Space again to de-select the item. • If you are going through a long list of items, I find it easiest to lock my VoiceOver keys (VO-Semi-Colon); then I typically just go up and down the list with my arrow keys and press Command-Space to select or de-select items and press F6 to check selections. I unlock my VoiceOver keys by pressing Semi-Colon when I'm done. Of course, other navigation commands, such as moving to the top or bottom of a list with VO-Home or VO-End (VO-Fn-Shift-Left arrow and VO-Fn-Shift-RIght arrow) also work. Cheers, Esther On Nov 23, 2011, at 09:43, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Bill, > > To mark non-contiguous items, interact with the table, press VO-Cmd-Space bar > and if you hear VoiceOver say that the item is unselected, repeat the action. > Navigate to the next item using the VO keys and down arrow, then press > VO-Cmd-Space bar on the one you want. > > Continue in this way until you have selected all your items, then perform the > desired action. Any new command will take you out of selection mode. > > I find list view the most effective for selecting non-contiguous items. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 23 Nov 2011, at 19:30, Bill Holton wrote: > >> Hi. >> As I understand it VO-Command Space is the command for marking >> non-contiguous files for action. But when I press this key on a file and >> mark it, no matter how I try to move to another file, up arrow, V up arrow, >> I don’t get the chance to mark other files, I get various menus. I have >> quick nav turned off, can’t figure out where I’m going wrong. >> Any help appreciated. >> -- 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.
