Hi mary Netnewswire is an application that stays opened as its own window, and i never actually access it via the menu bar nor try any contraption to access it.
Maybe i should have made an addendum to the list of accessible applications with a list of mac voice over productivity tools i use everyday to do all of my stuff on the mac. First of all, i use a lot of function keys to open certain applications, switch between them rapidly. For instance, my F1 is the finder, F2 the mail application, F3 skype, F4 text edit for quick note taking, F5 itunes, F9 yojimbo, F10 netnewswire and F11 yorufukuro. I also bind various other applications to gestures and all of my terminal or server related apps and utilities are triggered with the shift+all direction swipe with two fingers, whilst all internet related tasks such as bloggin with mars edit, safari, transmit and the likes are triggered with control all direction 3 finger swipes. I also use voice over specific gestures such as for routing the vo cursor or mouse cursor to another, again with swipes. Certain system relevant triggers i use such as reading the time and such have yet another set of swipes bound to them. In this way, i completely omit using the keyboard and the trackpad actually makes a whole lot more sense to use. In any case, a lot of applications then can be individually marked with hotspots which then are bound to gestures, and since activities localize gestures and trackpad commander events to each application, it becomes very easy and pleasurable to use anything, including netnewswire. It's all about customizing your own experience and improving it as you go and understand the system. I back it all up in my drop box for any transfer so that all my settings are retained wherever i go, at each restore and any new computer i might purchase later on. Best Yuma On 24/12/2011, at 6:34 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hello Yuma. I was interested in the net newswire application that you > mentioned. So I went and read a bit about it, and one of the things I saw was > a reference to the net newswire menu, accessed from the menu bar, naturally. > This sounds like another of those accessibility problems. 3rd party menus > that are in the menu bar are not accessible. Drop box comes to mind. So how > do you get around that issue with this news aggregator? I'm not a > programmer, but this sort of basic inaccessibility for 3rd party app menus in > the menu bar seems to be something that Apple has to solve, like the tables > problem that has been referred to so often with word processors. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > 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.
