Geof, Could you give details about using the track pad? Thanks, Laura 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.
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