Hi William, You can manage processes with Activity Monitor, which will not only show you active processes, CPU usage, disk activity, disk usage, and memory usage, but will also let you quit processes that are active -- including background processes such as you describe. Of course, most users may not need the level of detail that Activity Monitor provides, and will at most try to force quit active processes with Command-Option-Escape. However, you can set the pop up in Activity Monitor to display your Processes (the default, I think), System Processes, Other User Processes, or Inactive Processes (just to list a few of the options). You can filter the results by typing in search terms in the text field, and once you select a specific process from the table of displayed processes, you can inspect it in detail or quit it. All of this is accessible with VoiceOver, and you not only have the ability to simply quit a background process, but you can get a lot more information, too (and not just about processes, but also about disk and memory usage). So your statement, that I excerpt below, is not correct:
>> My conclusion: there is no way on the mac for voiceover users to manage the >> processes in the background on a accessible way. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 30, 2011, at 08:38, William Windels wrote: > Hello all, > I was trying to do a software update from inside the app store and there was > a program called traficbot that had a update. > I was not able to do this update since the program was active and was running > in the background. > > My conclusion: there is no way on the mac for voiceover users to manage the > processes in the background on a accessible way. > I have also tried the trick with the mouse while the trackpad commands are > off but without success. > > If it's true that voiceover users can't manage background processes , It > seems to mee a really missing basic possibility of a os. > In windows , this is possible with alt+control+del. > > Any comments on this meanings are very welcome, > > best regards, > William Windels > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
