That's exactly what it means. This makes hotspots an actually useful feature for a change. 10 hotspots aren't nearly enough system wide, but it's more than enough for one app. This is one of the best improvements in VoiceOver.
On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: Hi, Does this mean that one can have 10 hot spots per application now? Les On Jul 22, 2011, at 2:03 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Yep, activities is really good. > > If you want everything to work by gestures, add them to your hotspots and > swipe around to get where you want. > > However, tabbing and untabbing is faster with mail. > > I've set up quite a few hotspots with garage band and now its such a pleasure > to use it. Done the same with a stock monitoring app, Skype, a standalone > drum kit, and numbers. > > Very useful > > > On 22/07/2011, at 5:57 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > >> Activities have some great potential. You can make any VoiceOver settings >> application specific. For example, I created a new activity called Mail,. I >> enabled hot spots, and checked Mail in the applications. I then quit the VO >> utility and went to Mail. This uses the new mail view in Lion, but you can >> do the same for the old. I went to the mailboxes table but did not interact >> with it, and hit Vo-shift-1 to set a hot spot there. I then went to the >> message column and interacted. I went over to the messages table and without >> interacting, hit Vo-shift-2 to set a second hot spot. I then went over to >> the message content and did the same with Vo-shift-3. Now I have three hot >> spots specific to mail that take me to three common areas in the main window >> accessible with vo-1, vo-2, and vo-3. Nice and simple. >> >> It always confused me before that you could only have ten hot spots for the >> whole system, and I didn't use them much. Now activities allow for much >> greater fine-tuning of the VoiceOver experience. I have a feeling some >> shortcuts already exist to do these things, but if nothing else it >> demonstrates a new and powerful way to use hot spots and activities to make >> the new mail program a little easier. I wonder if APple will begin making >> application specific activities of their own in the future which come with >> VoiceOver. They enrich the experience. >> >> - Austin >> PS: I also made a Terminal activity without quick nav, to allow full use of >> the arrows. I also set the punctuation level to most, perfect for picking >> out Unix weirdness. WOnderful! >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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. -- 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.
