I don't use QN hardly if at all. I don't rally find it quick at all but very combersum on my finders. lol!
S On Aug 23, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Erik: > Actually you've gotten better luck with quick-nav than I have. I only tend > to use it when my arrows won't accomplish something in a message. I really > wish I understood it's full effect on the behavior of arrows and cursors. > Anyway, thanks for putting this out. It'll be helpful. > > Carolyn Haas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: erik burggraaf > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:55 AM > Subject: getting the most out of quicknav? > > Hi, I'm forcing myself to use quicknav today, just because. So, I've done > some googling and some reading and some playing, but I sense that I'm not > getting the most out of quicknav, because to be honest, it's somewhat more > convenient, but I'm not as blown away by the simplicity as I thought I would > be. > > So far, I've got left+right turn qn on or off. > down+right interact. > left+down stop interacting. > left+up and up+right, move around the router. > up+down perform the default action on an item in the voiceover curser. > Arrow keys on their own are used to navigate in the desired direction. > > Now, I'm thinking there must be more to this. For one thing, I'm finding it > counter-intuitive because I generally don't interact with things. > > For example, I would normally arrow up and down the messages table in mail or > the mailboxes table without interacting. This will read me the entire row of > information and I usually find that to be what I want to happen. If I sit on > the messages table with qn and press the down arrow, of course it takes me to > the scroll bars and things, and in order to read the messages table, I have > to either interact with it, or turn qn off. > > There are ways I can get around this in some tables, for example, if I know > what I want I can press the first letter or first few letters. That will > work some of the time, but in the messages table of mail, I want to scan them > all, not usually specific ones, so it falls over. > > So, how do people get along with this all the time? or are we all sitting > here turning qn on and off all the time depending on the situation? Am I > missing any qn features? > > Thanks, > > Erik Burggraaf > Check out my first ever podcast tutorial, Learn braille using the braille box. > Visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com and click podcasts to read more and > subscribe. > > -- > 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 > tomacvisionaries+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 > tomacvisionaries+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.
