hmmmm, I am intrigued. my machine is a desktop equipped to handle a mouse. I am not sure that this would work in the same way as a trackpad (gestures would certainly vary). I happen to also find some of the key combinations to be irritatingly non-relevant to their functions.
about the only thing I use the mouse for is the right mouse button context menu access. -Eric On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:39 PM, GEOFF WAALER wrote: > 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. Eric Oyen - N7ZZT Phoenix Arizona Geocode: 33.488462 -112.234926 N33° 29.3077', W112° 14.0956' -- 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.
