I was able to do this! It was painful though. 1. turn off cursor tracking. 2 interact with the item you want to add a shortcut to. 3. There will be either two items (title and chortcut) or three items (title, add shortcut button , and inactive text box) 4. Move VO cursor to the second item (either the button or the shortcut) 5. Route mouse to VO cursor and simulate a mouse click. 6. Voice over will announce "edit text" 7. Enter your shortcut stroke. 8. You will now be at the bottom of the table. Also note: when I have done this command-tab then became inactive. This might have been from my testing, or it might be a bug. In any case, the only way I was able to leave system prpreferences was to quit.
Also as a FYI hitting the delete key at step 8 will cause the keyboard short cut to be removed. Best wishes, Jonathan Jonathan C. Cohn [email protected] +1 *(703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:42 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here's the reply I got from Accessibility about my problem adding shortcuts > for predefined items in System Preferences. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > Hello, > > Thank you for your email. We appreciate the feedback and wanted to let you > know that Apple is currently investigating this issue. Unfortunately we > cannot comment on when it may be resolved. > > Apple Accessibility > > Hello, > > There appears to be a major bug in OS X 10.7.3 and OS X 10.7.4. VoiceOver > users cannot create keyboard shortcuts, other than for specific applications, > in System Preferences. > > I really hope that you can help with this one. > > Cheers, > > Anne Robertson > > To reproduce this bug, Turn VoiceOver on and open System Preferences. > Go to the Keyboard pane and select Keyboard Shortcuts. > Select a category in the first table, then navigate to the second table and > interact with it. > Choose a command for which you wish to create a shortcut (it must be one that > doesn't have a shortcut already). > For this purpose, I've chosen from the Services category, Open Selected File > in TextEdit. > Interact with the second column which contains the command name, the add > shortcut button, and a text field. > Whether the first column check box is checked or not, the command name and > text field in the second column are dimmed. > Try clicking the button. I tried VO-space, Space on its own, VO-Shift-Space, > Return, bringing the mouse, turning off VO and double-clicking with the > trackpad, all to no avail. > > > > -- > 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.
