I fought the signature battle yesterday. Finally, I won. So, open mail. Then, go to the menu bar and find preferences. You'll see a series of buttons, one of which is labeled signatures. Enable that one.
Here's where it got tricky for me. You'll see a table. You have to control option shift down-arrow to interact with it. When I did this, I saw something that said GMail, and, since that's what I use, I left the table alone, now that it was highlighted. Then, I tabbed over to a box that said signature 1. At first, I thought that was where the signature went, but no. That seems to just be the name of the signature. I tabbed again, and was in an edit box. I wrote the signature. The next part, I couldn't get voiceover to do, so a friend clicked on the plus sign for me. Apparently, this says that this is the signature I wanted to use. Then, I checked the box that said "include signature above quoted text". After that, I was done. Hopefully, this helps a bit. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until three for the Eclectic Collection: a Celebration of Women In Music. Point your media player to: http://mojoradio.us/listen or www.mintfm.net On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > Okay, I have a few questions that I haven't seen in the last few months. How > do you put things on your desc top? And how do you move a folder from one > place to the next? Like what command is like the applications key in > windows, or alt key, these keys gave us the options to copy move or send > things to certain areas. Lastly, what's the tricks to creating a signature > in apple mail? Thanks from a new user. On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Kimberly > wrote: > >> This is truly an incredibly helpful post. >> >> I've had my Mac for several months but haven't made the switch from Jaws and >> the pc because I find the command structure and especially web navigation >> totally not intuitive. But these two suggestions have made me want to give >> it another try. >> >> Kim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Shannon Dyer >> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 1:16 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: transition from pc to mac >> >> >> This was a marvelously helpful message. I read nothing about either of these >> features in the voiceover quickstart, and no one has suggested them. Thank >> you so, so much for making me aware of them. I think this will make the Mac >> and I better friends in a much more timely manner. (Smile) >> >> Shannon >> Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday from noon until >> three for the Eclectic Collection: a Celebration of Women In Music. Point >> your media player to: >> http://mojoradio.us/listen >> or >> www.mintfm.net >> >> On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: >> >>> Joanne, >>> >>> for me the podcasts etc do help, but by far the biggest thing that very >> few people seem to throw up as the most obviously easy way into Mac usage is >> to use QuickNav. >>> >>> let me explain, there are a number of ways to use a Mac, unlike with a PC, >> where you can really only use the qwerty keyboard. >>> >>> A Mac has different commanders as they are referred to, these are ways of >> inputting commands or actions to Voice Over to make a desired thing happen, >> be it navigation or more. >>> >>> you can use your keyboard, with the Voice Over keys, control and options, >> with a range of additional keys to activate various commands. You can use >> the number pad if your keyboard has one to also do the same, if you have a >> track pad you can use that to gesture like you can on an iPHone, iPod Touch >> or iPad. >>> >>> but the big one for me that is often overlooked is Quick Nav, quick nav >> uses the four arrow keys to enable you to quickly navigate around everything >> from finder Windows, to apps, to text edit areas to the internet etc. >>> >>> firstly you need to know that in certain cases you have to turn quick nav >> off and indeed back on again. you enable / disable quick nav using the left >> and right arrow keys pressed once at the same time. quite literally left and >> right arrow keys press once together. >>> >>> you'll hear Voice Over say, Quick Nav on or off. >>> >>> once its on, you can use individual presses of the right / left arrow to >> move the Voice Over cursor from item to item on the screen... >>> >>> inserted little note here, you need to also understand that whilst PC's >> screen readers use up and down arrows to move you about, the Mac uses left / >> right, and thinking about this, it does make sense, as this is how sighted >> folk read. >>> >>> so the left / right keys will move item by item, be it a chunk of text on >> the internet, or icons on a desktop etc. >>> >>> the up / down arrow keys again individually pressed will cycle through the >> elements of the item that you are interacting with based on the rotor >> setting, the rotor is a dial or rotory styled switch which adjusts the >> method of moving through elements in a given thing. >>> >>> let me explain, a web-site is made up of headings, links, visited links, >> fields, form fields, tables etc. so when you're in Safari the rotor may >> have, and you can customise this, headings, tables, links, words and >> characters within the rotor. if you want to quickly move between the >> headings on a web page you should make sure that the rotor is set to >> headings, you cchange the roter setting by pressing together the up and left >> arrow keys, or the up and right arrow keys. >>> >>> once you're on heading, use the up / down arrow key indivually to jump >> between headings since this is what your roter is now set to. >>> >>> say you find the heading you are looking for, you can now right arrow >> through the content, imagine though you find a word that Voice Over doesn't >> quite read right, and you think, what did it say? change the roter to word, >> using the up and right or up and left arrows together, now down press until >> yu are one word ahead of the word you wish to have spelt, now change the >> roter to charicter, press down arrow and the cursor will move charicter by >> charicter. >>> >>> once done simply change the roter bakc to heading or whatever you wish. >>> >>> this is just one example of how the roter works. >>> >>> another amazing thing which gets little press is the Item Chooser, which >> by pressing control, options, I, will bring up a list of every single item >> on any page you are on, be it a finder window or safari window etc. >>> >>> this has to be one of my favourite features of Voice Over. >>> >>> with this snazy feature you now have a list of every componant on the >> screen, say you are on Amazon, and you've got an item up in front of you, >> you want to find the add to basket button, but can't. >>> >>> press control, options, I, and then type basket, or b, a, s and leave it >> at that... the list of items reduces based on the available options with >> your letter combination. this is fantastic for finding things you are having >> trouble with, or where for example you don't quite know if the item is, add >> to basket, put in basket, add to cart, etc.... as you can try a few words >> until you find what you want. you don't need to do it in any given order, so >> even if the link reads add this dam item to my cart, you could type dam, and >> the list will reduce to any option with dam in it. >>> >>> Quick Nav and the Item Chooser have to be my two main features of Voice >> Over and this is how I have successfully last October made the switch to Mac >> from being a JAWS PC user for 12 years before that. >>> >>> hope that this has helped. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Neil Barnfather >>> >>> Talks List Administrator >>> Twitter @neilbarnfather >>> >>> TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your >>> accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com >>> >>> URL: - www.talknav.com >>> e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com >>> Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:58, Joanne Chua wrote: >>> >>> hi there, >>> >>> i'm Joanne, from Australia whom currently on total transit from PC to >>> Mac. however, i found that the commands and learning the back takes me >>> too long, and i'm not really sure where to start. >>> it sounds stupid i know but, may i ask, is there any tips or ways for >>> me to fast track my learning curves with using voice over? 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