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
>>> 
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