Hi Ray, This sounds very cool, but I'm having a little trouble getting that to work. That is, to access my dropbox menu. Does the trackpad commander have to be on or off for this to work? I tried it from the desktop. Here's what I do. 1. I went into vo util, and turned on the announcement that makes vo speak the name of the window where you move your mouse pointer to. If this is off, of course we won't hear the dropbox area being entered by the mouse pointer when we move our finger across the trackpad. This leads me to thinking that the trackpad commander has to be off. 2. I went to the desktop and hit control f8 there. 3. Now here's what won't work. You said to drag a finger in a straight line from left to right, and at some point, I may hear dropbox. Well this does not work as expected. Do you have any ideas why, and what I may be overlooking? Interested. On May 6, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> Well, you are doing nothing wrong. It's a quark of the way Drop box menus > are accessed. It's a bit tricky. > > 1. Make sure that, in Voice Over utilities, you set VO to report when the > mouse enters a new window. > > 2. Now, Press Control+F8 to access the Universal access menu. > > 3. Now, Move your finger along the very top of the track pad exactly in a > straight line until you hear, "Drop Box". Lift your finger off the pad. > > 4. Now, press the down arrow key to get in to the menu. Whether or not you > can access the preferences window from here is a hit or miss proposition. > > Drop Box has yet to substantively address this issue of accessibility > for us despite very many of us writing them time and time and time again. > All any of us get is a generic, "We're are aware of it and are working on it." > That explains why, from time to time, you'll see one or other of us come on > here and ask whether an alternative to Drop Box has been found. To the best > of my knowledge, the answer, so far, is no. > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On May 6, 2012, at 12:26 PM, craig J Dunlop wrote: > >> I got my drop box setup and all my folders appeared when it opened for the >> first time. but now when I go back in to it vo tells me dropbox has no >> windows. what am I doing wrong? >> >> -- >> 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.
