I'm sure it will be obvious - I've had sighted people use my mac before, and, though it takes a bit, they get the hang of things very quickly. Apple is good about providing visual cues that make it clear how something is supposed to work; if there should be a handle to drag, I'm sure it would appear if, as you said, you had more in your dock. I'm not sure, but I thought I heard somewhere that everything fits into the dock, shrinking as necessary. Once you mouse over an item, it enlarges, but I am thinking everything fits on one screen. I could be wrong, though.
I just want to add that, vo or not, ctrl-f3 (add function if necessary) will focus you on the dock. On May 3, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hopefully one of you can try to describe to me how to convey this concept. I > have a friend who is sighted who will be getting a mac really really soon. > They know little to nothing about the mac nor about OSX. Again, Voiceover is > not going to be a concern, as they are completely sighted. Basically, I know > a great annalogy that I'm gonna use to explain to her what the dock is, and > how it is sort of ish, similar to the windows task bar, but here is the > thing: With Voiceover, we can just hit vo+D to focus on the dock, then can > either use first letter navigation or can vo+right arrow to move through the > dock. I'm stating vo+right arrow, provided you're using default dock > behavior of docking on the bottom of the screen. Obviously, if you dock on > the left or right, then you'd vo+up and down arrow, but that won't be the > case. For her, she's gonna leave it alone going horizontally on the bottom > of the screen just like usual. Anyway, let's say she has so many icons in > the dock that they won't all visually fit on the screen at one time. I > totally understand that with Voiceover it'll automatically scroll as you > vo+left and right arrow, but how does she scroll the dock left and right with > the mouse? Can she just hover over the dock, then use her scroll wheel? I > wouldn't think that would work, being that the scroll wheel is normally for > scrolling virtically, isn't it? She's not getting a trackpad or the like, > it's just gonna be a real real basic el cheapo little 10 dollar two button > USB optical mouse with a scroll wheel. Nothing fancy. I also considered > dragging and dropping, but I don't think so. That would only let her > rearrange the items on the dock. I had her try doing it on my system, but > she said I don't have enough in my dock to where it's running off the screen. > She thought normally, there would be a little handle she could grab with the > mouse to move it back and forth, but she said she didn't see it, as I didn't > have enough there in the first place. > > I'm just wonderring if anyone knows how a person who can see would scroll the > dock left and right to fit and show more or less icons as needed. I know you > can change the size of the dock icons, but that doesn't answer my question. > We don't wanna do that. We want to leave as much alone, so she can get used > to things. Then, as she gets more comfortable, I'll help her tweek things > more to her specific liking. > > Chris. > > -- > 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. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- 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.
