Hi, hold down the control and option keys then place 2 fingers on the trackpad and turn them clockwise as if you were turning a dial. Of course, Voiceover needs to be on first for this to have any effect.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 14, 2012, at 11:46 AM, jack <lrmccre...@earthlink.net> wrote: > What is the command to turn tracking on? I am looking at a macbook air today. > thanks much. > larry > > -----Original Message----- From: Anne Robertson > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:08 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Track pads > > Hello Marc, > > If you buy a Mac laptop, you'll have a built-in trackpad, but if you buy a > desktop Mac, you'll have the option of buying the Magic Trackpad instead of, > or as well as, a mouse. There are no other brands of trackpad that work with > a mac. > > As for it's limitations, there are a number of navigation commands already > mapped to gestures on the trackpad, but you can add the VO commands you use > most frequently and map them to unused gestures. > > It isn't exactly like the iPhone because Mac OS X isn't IOS 5. So, on the > Mac, you have gestures for interacting and stopping the interaction, for > instance. > > None of this will make sense to you until you have a Mac and learn about the > OS. > > Using the trackpad with VoiceOver means turning on the trackpad commander > which renders the trackpad inoperable for moving the mouse. However, a simple > gesture turns the trackpad commander off and on, so getting sighted help to > fix a problem is still possible. > > I can't give you any comparisons with Windows and its various screen readers > as I've never used Windows. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 14 Apr 2012, at 16:38, Marc Rocheleau wrote: > >> Is there any brand of track pads people can recommend? Using an >> iPhone, this intrigues me a great deal -- are all the gestures the >> same as on that device as well? Obviously my next question is what >> limitations does the track pad have when it comes to navigating >> through the Mac OSX? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Marc > > -- > 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.
