Hi Ester, That's fine. I wasn't sure who he was responding to. The original discussion was in regards to the context menu so I think my post still applies in some way. Take care.
On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Barry, > > We've got two different discussions going on here. Yuma was > responding to my (lengthy) post about the options on the Safari > Preferences menu for tabbing. Although they use sequences like > Command-Click, Command-Shift-Click, Command-Option-Click, and Command- > Option-Shift-Click for their actions, a VoiceOver user can substitute > pressing the "Return" key (that some users refer to as the "Enter" > key) in place of Clicking, and it is not necessary to route the mouse > to the link with VO-Command-F5 first (at least in the present version > of Safari, Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, and perhaps also in Snow > Leopard). You were talking about VO-Shift-M as VoiceOver's way to get > to the contextual menu (including the context menu for a web page > link), which gives other options like copying the link URL, > downloading the link's content (if it's a PDF file or mp3 files), > opening the link in a new window, etc. > > At present setting up the Safari preferences from the tab pane will > allow you to use Command-Return and Command-Option-Return to open a > link in either a new tab or window that gets focus. (Wow, I've gotten > used to typing Command-Enter -- this doesn't seem natural to type > Return.) > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Barry Hadder wrote: > >> >> Yuma, >> >> I don't know how new you are to voiceover and the Mac so I want to >> make sure something is clear to you. >> vo-shft-m is a voiceover key and not a Safari key and you won't find >> it in the Safari help. You can use that anywhere to bring up a >> context menu. There are times when it doesn't work like it should, >> but it's the first thing you want to try when you need a context >> menu. Most of the time it works just fine. >> Good luck. >> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> So shift acts a bit like a secondary command list. That's good to >>> know :) >>> >>> I have looked at a list of keyboard shortcuts, but they vary from >>> context to context, or so it tends to make me believe. >>> >>> Thanks a lot for the info though, one more for the mac >>> >>> bbest >>> >>> Yuma >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
