Marlaina, I believe that I've figured out why your checkboxes are not announcing themselves, in the VO Utility, under the Verbosity item, select Medium instead of Low and you should have better luck with VO announcing the state of such things.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2010-11-04, at 8:14 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Tim, > > Here is a good example of I can't tell what is checked here! I'm looking at > the vo utility now, and i have no idea what is checked or not checked > because vo doesn't tell me. > > So as i check and uncheck to see what's what, I see that initial position of > vo cursor is keyboard focused item > keyboard focus follows vo cursor > vo cursor follows keyboard cursor > insertion point follows vo cursor > vo cursor follows insertion point > mouse cursor ignores vo cursor > allow cursor wrapping is not checked > skip redundant labels is not checked > automatically interact when using tab key is checked > > > Marlaina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Kilburn" <kilbu...@shaw.ca> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:56 PM > Subject: Re: Selecting non contiguous items > > > Marlaina, > > 1. Do you have cursors following each other in your VO Prefs? I find that > things work much easier for me when things are set in this fashion. > > 2. You must Interact with your Table before beginning this process for it > to work properly. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2010-11-04, at 7:39 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > >> Hi Tim. >> >> Well, I've gotten further with this but still not achieved success. when >> I >> do the vo-shift-fn-cmd-f5, voiceover turns on or off. I've tried this >> using >> the vo-semi colon lock and by cramming all my small fingers on all those >> keys and still no success. But, going boldy forward because I can't get >> that part to work, I do get to turn cursor tracking on and off but if I >> arrow down, I'm not in my list and i suspect that is because I can't get >> the >> cursors aligned with the first big key press I need, vo-fn-shift-cmd-f5. >> I'm not giving up, but if you have any ideas, oh boy my psyche can surely >> use them, LOL! >> >> Marlaina >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tim Kilburn" <kilbu...@shaw.ca> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:50 PM >> Subject: Re: Selecting non contiguous items >> >> >> Hi Marlaina, >> >> to select non-contiguous items: >> >> 1. Navigate to the first item. If VO cursors are not following each >> other, >> then use VO-cmd-f5 (add FN on a laptop) to bring focus to where VO is. >> 2. Now turn off cursor tracking by pressing VO-shift-f3 (add the FN on a >> laptop). >> 3. Navigate to the next item you wish to select. >> 4. Press VO-cmd-space. >> 5. Repeat #3 and #4 until you have all items selected. >> 6. Press cmd-c to copy or begin dragging or do whatever you wish to do. >> 7. Turn cursor tracking back on using VO-shift-f3 (add FN on a laptop). >> >> don't forget to do #7 as it will frustrate you to no end when cursor >> tracking is off and you're trying to do things you're used to doing. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2010-11-04, at 6:40 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> In windows, we hold down control and press down arrow in a list of items >>> until we get to that which we want to select, and to select it we press >>> space. 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