Hi, This menu bar icon that he's referring to, is on the status menu where you have your wifi status, the clock, your bluetooth status, etc. A lot of apps will put status icons up there. Unfortunately, we do not have access to those which are put there by third-party developers with VoiceOver. We sort of had access in previous versions of Mac OS X, but even that, wasn't proper keyboard access like we should have. We had to route the mouse, to the VoiceOver cursor, and then use the physical mouse, or the trackpad, constantly checking where the mouse was with the VO keystroke to do that. With the release of Lion, that access that we did have, via that workaround, unfortunately has broke. For some reason, from what i've heard, developers can't even expose their menu bar icons to VoiceOver, so that we can have access to them, , as that is an API which Apple does not make available to developers. Why they never did make it available in the first place, , is beyond me. As I have done, I'd encourage you to write to Apple accessibility, to let them know about this issue. If we could have access to these third-party menu bar icons, that would take away barriers that we currently have, with the lack of access that we have to them now. . On Nov 24, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote:
> Hi, I'm still not having any luck with dropbox. > I got a response from the tech guys at dropbox.com and he said I should try > unlinking and re-linking my dropbox so that hopefully I would then get access > to all my files-as it is currently empty and I know it's quite full in > reality. > He said to go > 1) Right click the Dropbox icon in the system tray at the bottom right of > your screen, by the clock on Windows or menu bar at the top of your screen on > Mac. > 2) Select 'Preferences' > 3) Click the Account tab and then the 'Unlink' button > > So where is this menu bar/icon he's talking about? I know exactly what he's > talking about regarding Windows, but not for Mac. > If I open dropbox in the applications window it says 'dropbox has no windows' > and every time I try to get to preferences it says 'finder preferences'. > Thanks. > Kirsten. > > > -- > 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.
