I am having intermittent success with this….By intermittent, I mean it worked for me once. I remember seeing somebody say that you needed to check off something about in front windows or applications and saw this once, I can't, however, find this again.
Can anybody direct me? Thx, Jeff On 2012-07-30, at 9:07 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys > Does anybody know why it makes a difference if you reassigned your key to F10 > as some people have done already? I haven't done that, and I seem to be > having a problem at times. What is the reason for reassigning it? Also if you > have a MacBook Pro, can you use the F10 key by itself without the FN key? > > Eugenia Firth > [email protected] > > > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> This is great info! I think I'm missing a step, perhaps I've been hacking >> around too long and I'm suffering from Information Overload. I went into >> System preferences and made certain Speakable Items were turned on. But I'm >> unable to find the subsequent dialogs you spoke of. Can you help? Thanks. >> >> Les >> On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I, too, set my speakable objects key to f10, restarted the mac, and now it >>> is working. Here's what I discovered so far: >>> "switch to [app name]" will switch you to an app, provided that app is >>> already running. >>> "open [app name]" will open an app not already open, including third-party >>> apps you install, not just the ones the mac comes with. >>> "what time is it" will speak the current time. >>> "what's today's date" will speak the date >>> "quit this application" will close the currently focused app; "hide this >>> application" does the same but minimizes it >>> There are more commands which you can get to by saying "show me what to >>> say". Interact with the table, then interact with the item you want. >>> VO-right to the "collapsed" item and vo-space on it to expand, then stop >>> interacting and move right until you get to the commands list. If nothing >>> else, I love the time and app focusing commands. Also, in the preferences >>> dialog for speakable items, you can enable front window, which lets you >>> speak the name of a control in the currently focused window to be activated >>> or switched to, I'm not sure how that works yet. >>> >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > -- > 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.
