Track pad commander must be off.
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Jun 28, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > 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. -- 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.
