Hi Linda, What flavor of Mac do you have? Does it have a trackpad? If so would you be willing to consider that interface as an alternative to the keyboard?
Personally I became extremely disgusted with the fact that all VO commands required anywhere from three to five keys which often had no rhyme nor reason to them (e.g. control-option-u for the rotor when the letter u is absent from the word rotor), or the way you were often forced to remove hands from the home keys to enter for example control-option-shift-f3 to toggle cursor tracking since the macbook pro lacks a control on the right side. I realize that personal preferences vary, but I began using the trackpad almost exclusively and now find reviewing email and web navigation very comfortable and fast using MacOs and voiceOver. I will share some details if the trackpad is even applicable in your situation. If you are going to stay with the keyboard, I'm afraid Sarah has your best answer on this thread so far -- essentially that you're SOL. Best regards. Geoff On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > Hello, everyone. I am Linda Adams, a very new and inexperienced user of an > Apple Snow Leopard 10.6. I have been a Windoes user for ten years, and now > I am experimenting to see if the Apple Snow Leopard will be comfortably > accessible. > > My computer technician friend has been worried for a while about the > increasing security problems with Windows computers and is wanting me to > switch to Apple. I would be very interested to hear from former Windows users > regarding what benefits they experience with Apple versus the Windows PC > computer. > On a more specific note, is there anything that I can set in System > Preferences or VoiceOver Utility to get rid of the table view in Mail and > switch it > to a list view so that there aren't as many navigation steps to go through to > read messages? > Are there settings that I can do to allow me to read a website line by line > from the top of the page to the bottom in Safari? I like to go to catalog > websites > such as LL Bean or The Vermont Country Store where there are plain text > descriptions of every product below that product link. I want to see the web > pages > as they really are rather than just being shown links, headers, or other such > element groups. > My hands are quite small. Is it possible to change settings so that not as > many keys need to be pressed at a time to perform functions? I know about > Quick Nav and locking the VoiceOver keys, but the VoiceOver keys often need > to be unlocked to perform other commands. > Thank you for any advice and help that you can give me. I have three friends > counting on me to tell them whether Apple would be good to switch to or not. > > Linda Adams > > -- > 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.
