Hi Esther, thank you so much. As always a very valuable information by Esther. :-) I don't know why just pressing Option + Enter on a link not always works in my case. But first jump to the address field seems to work reliably.
All the best from snowy Germany Jürgen Am 06.02.2013 um 16:40 schrieb Esther <[email protected]>: > Hello Jürgen, Darrell, and Others, > > I'll just add the comment that if you ever have started playing an mp3 > file in your browser, you can press command-L to highlight the > location in the browser followed by Option-enter to force this to > download to your default downloads location instead of continuing to > play.. > > This is the regular Mac shortcut known as Option-Click to force > downloads of highlighted items. VoiceOver automatically highlights > the link when you navigate there, so holding down the Option key and > then pressing return (or "enter" as many like to say) automatically > forces the download. > > When you navigate to the address bar with Command-L, the link address > is automatically highlighted. So this is what Mike's sequence of > commands is doing: it's placing the highlighted link address in the > address bar so he can press Option-Enter to force the download. > > I usually move items from my downloads folder. If I want to download > a number of items to another folder, I may bring up the Safari > preferences menu with Command-comma, and temporarily change the > default download location. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 5, 11:24 am, Jürgen Fleger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> thanks so much. That's a way to download an mp3 file I looked so long for. >> Thanks again. >> Jürgen >> Am 05.02.2013 um 21:01 schrieb Michael Babcock <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Here are the steps Iteri, and it may be the long, drawnout way. >>> I find the link, press control, option, shift, you, immediately after that, >>> I listen to voiceover states "http://"; and I press control, option, shift, >>> see. >>> I then press command L, and command, V. Holding the option key down, I >>> press return, this then causes the MP3 file to download. This is the most >>> reliable way I have found to download MP3 files. >>> Hope this helps >> >>> http://empoweringtheblind.com >>> Empowering the blind, one step at a time. >> >>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Darrell Shandrow <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >> >>>> Hello Everyone, >> >>>> Can anyone tell me how I can reliably right-click links in Safari to take >>>> actions on them, such as download the associated MP3 file? >> >>>> Here's what I am trying to do: >> >>>> 1. Visithttp://htb2.com/tutorials/mac/ >>>> 2. Find a MP3 file link on that page. >>>> 3. Press VO+Shift+M. >>>> 4. Sometimes it works and I see 12 items on that menu. Other times it >>>> doesn't and I only see five items. >> >>>> Any recommendations for doing this reliably? >> >>>> Thanks, >> >>>> Darrell > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
