Hopefully one of you can try to describe to me how to convey this concept. I have a friend who is sighted who will be getting a mac really really soon. They know little to nothing about the mac nor about OSX. Again, Voiceover is not going to be a concern, as they are completely sighted. Basically, I know a great annalogy that I'm gonna use to explain to her what the dock is, and how it is sort of ish, similar to the windows task bar, but here is the thing: With Voiceover, we can just hit vo+D to focus on the dock, then can either use first letter navigation or can vo+right arrow to move through the dock. I'm stating vo+right arrow, provided you're using default dock behavior of docking on the bottom of the screen. Obviously, if you dock on the left or right, then you'd vo+up and down arrow, but that won't be the case. For her, she's gonna leave it alone going horizontally on the bottom of the screen just like usual. Anyway, let's say she has so many icons in the dock that they won't all visually fit on the screen at one time. I totally understand that with Voiceover it'll automatically scroll as you vo+left and right arrow, but how does she scroll the dock left and right with the mouse? Can she just hover over the dock, then use her scroll wheel? I wouldn't think that would work, being that the scroll wheel is normally for scrolling virtically, isn't it? She's not getting a trackpad or the like, it's just gonna be a real real basic el cheapo little 10 dollar two button USB optical mouse with a scroll wheel. Nothing fancy. I also considered dragging and dropping, but I don't think so. That would only let her rearrange the items on the dock. I had her try doing it on my system, but she said I don't have enough in my dock to where it's running off the screen. She thought normally, there would be a little handle she could grab with the mouse to move it back and forth, but she said she didn't see it, as I didn't have enough there in the first place.
I'm just wonderring if anyone knows how a person who can see would scroll the dock left and right to fit and show more or less icons as needed. I know you can change the size of the dock icons, but that doesn't answer my question. We don't wanna do that. We want to leave as much alone, so she can get used to things. Then, as she gets more comfortable, I'll help her tweek things more to her specific liking. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
