Hello Ray Foret,
All the directions say VO + left or right should work. However, it
only beeps if you do that. And I don't know why. Even the up and down
arrow cause it to beep.
Actually, this is my first Mac, and I had to re-label my bumblebee
keyboard.
Thanks!
On Friday, January 10, 2014 2:51:06 PM UTC-5, Ray Foret jr wrote:
>
> April, sounds like you need to relax and try this.
>
> IF you press VO+left or right, you can navigate any web page usually just
> fine with voice OVer. I will not nor can I provide step by step
> instructions for every little operation. That’s not the best way to learn
> Voice OVer anyhow. The best way is the way you started: by just doing it.
> So, let me give you the following things.
>
> 1. Do you know what I mean by pressing VO+left or VO+right? What I mean
> is the key combination of control+Option+left, right up or down arrow. So,
> whenever someone here tells you to press say VO+right, for exampel, what
> they will mean is that you should press control+Option+left or right.
> Surely, you know the Apple keyboard enough to know that your option key is
> right next to your control key and on its right.
>
> Pressing VO+space will be the usual way to click on a web page link or
> activate something. In some cases, however, the return key will be used to
> open some web streams. That is a case by case thing you’ll just have to
> play with it.
>
> 2. Keyboard help. To get in to keyboard help, press VO+k. Now, with
> keyboard help on, you can type what ever you wish to type and you will be
> informed what each key or group of keys does and this includes many Voice
> Over commands also. To get out of keyboard help, press escape.
>
> 3. To get help with Voice Over at any time, press VO+h. For a list of
> all Voice OVer commands, Press VO+h twice.
>
> That should help to get you started good.
>
>
> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
> built-in!
>
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!
>
> On Jan 10, 2014, at 1:43 PM, April Brown <[email protected]<javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> Please help me.
>
> I can design a website with HTML and CSS sheets, working links, and
> shopping cart, and can't figure out how to make VoiceOver work.
>
> I've probably read every online manual I can find. And still, it's a no
> go.
>
> I spent probably two hours on it today. Somehow, it did almost work in
> Mail.
>
> As for the Internet. I tried every key combination listed in all the web
> manuals I down loaded and printed to no avail. Sure, it would the top line
> that says "
> File, Edit," etc... One time, I even got it to read the left pane in
> Twitter. I still cannot get it to read posts in Twitter, these forums,
> Google Plus, or Facebook.
>
> Can someone please treat this old web designer like someone who has never
> turned on a computer and tell me the steps to use VoiceOver to read a
> simple webpage. I figure, if I can learn to use it on Twitter, I can
> figure the rest out. If I can just figure out how to get it to leap from
> the menu bar to the web page.
>
> Than k you,
>
> April Brown
>
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