Hello Garth, There are vast numbers of keyboard shortcuts that have nothing to do with VoiceOver.
To get a contextual menu, hold down the Control key and click with the mouse or trackpad; To get to the Apple menu, press Ctrl-F2; To go to the dock, press Ctrl-F3; To go to the Status menus, press Ctrl-F8; To go to the Toolbar, press Ctrl-F5; To open the Applications folder, press Cmd-Shift-A; To open the Utilities folder, press Cmd-Shift-U; To open the Documents folder, press Cmd-Shift-O; To open the Home folder, press Cmd-Shift-H; And there are many more. To learn more about shortcuts and enable the ones you want, go into System Preferences, Keyboard, and select the Shortcuts tab. There you will find a table of categories, and to the right of that, a table of shortcuts for the category you've chosen. Cheers, Anne On 26 Nov 2011, at 09:24, Garth Humphreys wrote: > Hi Ricardo and Scott > > Sorry this is just an impression I have. I will explain a little further > what I mean, and let me also say that I acknowledge that as a new mac user I > probably don't really know what I am talking about. > > It is things like bringing up a context menu. There is obviously the 4 finger > VO way to do this. Is there any keyboard only way of doing this other then > the VO one? Under windows there is a specific key for this as well as at > least one other 2 finger keyboard shortcut. > > I get the impression that a lot of the UI in OSX is designed to be interacted > with by using a mouse or now the track pad primarily. This is obviously the > same with windows but in windows I think that you would be more likely to be > able to find a keystroke which would accomplish the task you wanted. VO seems > to have to overcome the lack of a native keyboard shortcut and it often seems > that there are a lot of steps that are needed to get the job done. Not to > mention the number of keys that make up some of the shortcuts. > > There has been a strong history of supporting keyboard shortcuts under > windows. I read recently somewhere, possibly in the Steve Jobs biography, > that at one time he wanted to get rid of arrow keys on his keyboards > altogether. > > I think Pages is probably a lot more efficient to use if you are able to see > and can use the mouse. Under word you can achieve heaps with simple keyboard > shortcuts. > > Anyway as I said these are just the impressions of a new mac user. > > Garth -- 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.
