Well, I've tried all suggestions. The only thing that works besides using the VO arrow combinations is the tab key.
Les On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this > happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it starts > working. > > regards, > Gigi > > > On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me. >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Gavin Grundlingh >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 AM >> Subject: Re: Navigating the Desktop >> >> I find that, if ever something like this happens to me, tabbing between the >> various desktop items seems to sort things out. After tabbing once or twice, >> I can usually go back to using the arrow keys. >> >> Regards, >> >> Gavin Grundlingh >> Primary Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 >> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 >> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 >> Primary Email: [email protected] >> Secondary Email: [email protected] >> Skype: Batworx >> Facebook: http://facebook.com/gavin.grundlingh >> Twitter: @Batworx >> >> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:26 PM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have always! found desktop navigation to be really spiratic. Sometimes I >> can't even vo+left and right arrow. I have to command tab away from the >> finder to another app, then back to the finder again, then! things start >> working as they should. >> >> I made Apple aware of this, but even the engineers were totally baffled as >> to why this was happening. They were! able to reproduce the spiratic >> behavior, but just are really puzzled as to a sollution, and as to why in >> the first place it's doing this. They did promise me though that they'd >> keep researching it. >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Kriegler" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:07 AM >> Subject: Navigating the Desktop >> >> >> When I access the Finder window, I have two items, Macintosh HD and my >> external disk drive shown. I always arrowed using up and down arrows to >> highlight either drive. Now, for some reason, I hear nothing when using the >> down arrow key to move from Macintosh HD to my external disk drive. I have >> to use VO Right arrow to highlight the external drive. How can I change >> this back to the way it was? Thanks. >> >> Les >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 [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. >> >> > > > -- > 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.
