It's a mode that enables quick navigation (hence the name) in VoiceOver. If I'm on a webpage and press h, nothing at all happens. If I turn Quick Nav on and press h, though, I move to the next heading. Plus, Quick Nav super-charges your arrow keys. Instead of moving the ways they usually do, they turn into a rotor, vo-space shortcut, and vo-left/right shortcuts. Up and left will rotor left, up and right will rotor right; up will move to the previous rotor selection, down will move to the next one; left will do the same thing as vo-left, right vo-right; up and down together will perform a vo-space; left and right together will toggle this mode on and off.
As useful as it is, there are drawbacks. If you go to type something and forget to disable Quick Nav, your typed characters will be interpreted as commands instead of text input. Plus, arrowing becomes unreliable, since up or down arrow move by rotor item and not line, or table row, or menu item. Most of the time, VoiceOver does a good job auto-disabling Quick Nav for typing, or setting the rotor to the right thing so your up and down arrows work as expected. It can fail to do this, though, and that's when confusion and frustration can set in. I don't use the option much, mostly because it gave me such grief back when I was learning the Mac that I always kept it turned off and I rarely have occasion to turn it back on now that I'm used to not having it. It's a personal choice, though, and many people love Quick Nav and use it all the time. > On Aug 3, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Nancy Badger <nancybad...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Can someone please tell me what quick nav actually does? I haven't been able > to figure it out, and I haven't seen it explained anywhere. Lots of people > talk about when to turn it on and went to turn it off. But no exclamation as > to what it actually is. > Thanks and sorry if this sounds stupid. > > Nancy Badger, Ph.D > Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services > UT Chattanooga > Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Aleeha Dudley <blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The original sender wanted a one key command, which is not possible to >> create, unfortunately. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Aug 1, 2015, at 12:19 PM, george b <gbma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It is built in >>> >>> Push both the left and right arrows at the same time and you get quick nav >>> on and the same for off >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Finley >>> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 08:07 >>> To: macvisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: QuickNav Commands question >>> >>> I would like to set a single key toggle to turn quickNav on and off. I >>> understand how to set up quickNav and keyboard commanders and have >>> successfully done both. But I cannot locate a command for toggling >>> quickNav on or off. Am I missing something or does this command not exist? >>> >>> A second related question, when adding QN commands there is a checkbox for >>> enabling/disabling the left/right arrow key toggle. If one disables that, >>> what is the alternative? Thank you. >>> >>> Sandy >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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.
