Hello Mark, The ding sound you heard was because of the conflict with Hotspots. You were trying to describe the item at Hotspot 8 which was not set.
This is what I meant about the conflict. If you want to use VoiceOver and to be able to toggle between black on white and white on black, you need to change the shortcut in System Preferences. Cheers, Anne On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:46 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello, Ann. > > I have not begun working with hot spots, yet. However, I will go back into > the keyboard universal settings and attempt to configure a hot key that is > not in conflict with another. > > I have one question, however: Before William's very excellent instructions > on how to engage the reverse color hot key command, pressing the hotkey > simply resulted in the system making a ding sound. To me, it did not appear > to do anything. > > Am I missing something? > > Thank you, > > Mark > > > > On Jun 19, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello William, >> >> Your instructions are fine as far as they go, but they don't remove the >> conflict with the HotSpots command. >> >> To do this, you need to change the shortcut in System Preferences to >> something like Control-Command-F8. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:24 PM, William Mutch wrote: >> >>> Hi, In order to have the control stroke to work the reverse black and white >>> you need to do the following,. >>> >>> 1. navigate to system preferences >>> 2. Then go to keyboard >>> 3. Once in there you will find that there are two tabs. You should v o >>> spacebar on the keyboard shortcuts tab. >>> 4. Then v o right arrow to the shortcuts categories table, interact with >>> this table then arrow down to universal access. Stop interacting then tab >>> once, you should now be in the keyboard shortcuts table. >>> 5. v o right arrow once, then down arrow till you reach reverse black and >>> white. You will have to v o left arrow onc. You should be on a check box. v >>> o spacebar in order to check the box. >>> 6 You should then be able to use the control - option - command + 8 >>> keystroke to reverse black and white. >>> >>> Its a long and complicated procedure but I have done this on my imac >>> running snow leopard and it does work. >>> >>> Hope your successful. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
