Brian, What I find helpful is to change the default "Speak mouse on object after delay:" (it is worded something like that) to zero, so that there is no delay between you touching the track pad and hearing Voiceover speak what you are focused on. I find this most helpful when on the Internet and I wish to route the mouse to the VO curser where I can then physically click in order to activate an element that I cannot get at with VoiceOver, such as reading "More:" on a review (this is most common).
As for opening a mail message, if you are using the track pad commander with VoiceOver instead of the regular track pad as a sighted person would use it, I am not exactly sure. If you double-tap it will activate the default action, but that may or may not necessarily give you the desired result. In all honesty, I find the track pad (not the track pad commander) most useful for getting the idea of the visual layout of a particular program (although I often neglect to use this because I frequently forget it's available to me). I also find it helpful, as I said, for accessing things that I cannot otherwise access using VoiceOver, such as activating links that, for whatever reason, require a physical mouse click instead of a simulated one. Thanks, and I hope this helps, Harry On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:52 AM, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, having had a trackpad for a long time and not making any use > of it, I finally started playing around with it, and it is pretty > impressive for the most part.Will be nice to give my arrow keys a > break every now and then. My question is about using mail. I can > navigate my mail with the trackpad, but opening a piece of mail seems > impossible. I would assume like anything you would just click on the > mail message you want to open, but that doesn't seem to work and > neither did any of the other gestures I tried seemed to work. I would > have to figure there is a way to open a mail message using the > trackpad as there are other programs you can opn from your dock and > finder with trackpad. I have read aliitle something about creating > trackpad commanders which I haven't played around with as it seems to > defeat the purpose of using the keyboard as I read you need to touch > the control button to make use of a modifier key for custom commands > with the track pad. Has any one figured out a great way of just using > the trackpad to open things like mail and the same thing happens in > Newsrack when I want to click on an article to read in safari, I > scroll through my articles but when I get to one I want to read I have > to click return on the keyboard to open the thread in safari. Would > love to hear if anyone came up with some better solutions. Thanks > > -- > 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.
