Hi, It sounds like either Cursor Tracking is turned off or that your cursors are not following each other. People prefer cursor following in numerous ways and that is probably why these settings are configurable. Consider that, if your keyboard cursor is not following the VO cursor, attempting to enter data in an Edit field could be frustrating since the keyboard would be focused somewhere else instead of where VO is focused. As you mentioned, check these out in the Navigation area of the VO Utility. If you have turned off Cursor Tracking for some reason (VO-shift-f3) and have not turned it back on, these sorts of frustrations and confusion can happen a lot.
To make things quicker for you, I suggest you do the following when using the System Preferences app. Like you’ve been doing, press VO-m to go up to the Apple menu, arrow down once then press “s” “y” quickly. VO should announce system Preferences at which time you should press return and System Prefs will open. Press tab once which will bring keyboard focus into the Scroll area and then just press the first letter or two of the System Pref you want to access. For example, after pressing tab once and entering the Scroll area, VO will usually announce “General”, typing the letter “u” jumps you to the Users & Groups button. You can then press VO-space or just space and that pane will open. Use VO navigation after that to do whatever needs done. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jan 5, 2015, at 09:23, Pablo Sandoval <paulsandova...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Let me see if I can give an example: > Let’s say I want to go in to system preferences, I do VO M that pulls up the > Apple menu. I arrow down to system prefs, at this point I hit VO space, > nothing happens unless I press return. Once in system preferences, I interact > with scroll area, and if I want to activate general only space will do so. > I will check the cursor settings in VoiceOver Utility/ navigation.. > Thank you. > >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Do you have specifics on what/when this occurs? Remember that VO-space is >> defined as “Default Action”, not exactly mouse-click, so it won’t always do >> what you expect if that is not the default action. There are also >> consistent situations where the VO-space needs to be replaced with >> VO-shift-space which performs a virtual mouse-click and can be repeated in >> quick succession to perform the double-click function. It’s often necessary >> to ensure that the mouse cursor has properly been brought to the VO focused >> item when performing mouse-clicks as well. This is accomplished by pressing >> VO-cmd-f5. Depending on your keyboard settings, you may also need to add >> the FN key to this combination. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 09:07, Pablo Sandoval <paulsandova...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi list, >>> As the subject says, I’m having trouble getting VO to activate items with >>> the command "VO space". “Space" by itself seems to activate items, but this >>> makes me wonder what else is going wrong with these settings. >>> If anyone can shed some light I’d be grateful. >>> It’s a MacBook Air late 2013 running the latest Yosemite. >>> Thanks for your time. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
