Hi Nick, Try this with pop-ups:
1. Navigate to the cell with the pop-up menu. 2. Route the mouse to the VO-cursor with VO-cmd-f5. 3. Turn on Mouse-keys. (Press the Option key five times if you’ve set this up in System Preferences.) 4. Go right 85 to 90 times. (Letter “o” on a laptop or smaller keyboard and NumPad 6 on a extended keyboard) 5. Click the mouse-keys mouse. (Letter “i” on a laptop or smaller keyboard and NumPad 5 on an extended keyboard) 6. Turn off mouse-keys. (Same process as #3) 7. Move through the pop-up as you normally would. This doesn’t solve the issue that VO doesn’t tell you that you’re actually on a pop-up menu cell nor is it particularly pretty. The 85 to 90 pixels right may change depending on the width of your cells but this appears to work for a standard width cell. This mouse-keys stuff sometimes works in apps that the developer has placed custom elements in that aren’t visible to VO. It’s a lot of trial and error though to actually figure out something useful for the VO user. WorkGroup Manager has an entire section that is coded with some sort of custom element and I need to mouse-keys down 250 or so then left or right about 140 (or some other numbers I’ve had to determine) to activate specific preference panes for managing MacOS clients. This is a huge pain for me, has been this way since the start of VO in Tiger and Apple has yet to address it as far as I know. It’s especially frustrating when I’m interrupted and lose count or just lose count when my mind wanders. Anyway, give this method a try and see if it works for you. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 23, 2014, at 5:37 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a little more info on the popup menu issue in Numbers, but still no > solution, unfortunately. > > I got my girlfriend to check, and she says that just clicking on the cell > doesn't do anything. There's a little triangle or arrow below or next to the > cell though, and clicking on this brings up what she describes as a drop down > menu, rather than a popup menu. I couldn't find a way to make use of this > info to activate the popup menu with VoiceOver, but perhaps someone else can. > > With hope, > Nic > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
