Hi, Try toggling VO off then on. Sometimes things get messed up by background apps not usually visible to VO.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-05, at 11:43 AM, Les Kriegler <kriegle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I've tried all suggestions. The only thing that works besides using > the VO arrow combinations is the tab key. > > Les > On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > >> I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this >> happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it starts >> working. >> >> regards, >> Gigi >> >> >> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Gavin Grundlingh >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 AM >>> Subject: Re: Navigating the Desktop >>> >>> I find that, if ever something like this happens to me, tabbing between the >>> various desktop items seems to sort things out. After tabbing once or >>> twice, I can usually go back to using the arrow keys. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Gavin Grundlingh >>> Primary Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 >>> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 >>> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 >>> Primary Email: g.batw...@gmail.com >>> Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za >>> Skype: Batworx >>> Facebook: http://facebook.com/gavin.grundlingh >>> Twitter: @Batworx >>> >>> On 05 Jun 2013, at 12:26 PM, "Chris Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have always! found desktop navigation to be really spiratic. Sometimes I >>> can't even vo+left and right arrow. I have to command tab away from the >>> finder to another app, then back to the finder again, then! things start >>> working as they should. >>> >>> I made Apple aware of this, but even the engineers were totally baffled as >>> to why this was happening. They were! able to reproduce the spiratic >>> behavior, but just are really puzzled as to a sollution, and as to why in >>> the first place it's doing this. They did promise me though that they'd >>> keep researching it. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Kriegler" <kriegle...@gmail.com> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:07 AM >>> Subject: Navigating the Desktop >>> >>> >>> When I access the Finder window, I have two items, Macintosh HD and my >>> external disk drive shown. I always arrowed using up and down arrows to >>> highlight either drive. Now, for some reason, I hear nothing when using >>> the down arrow key to move from Macintosh HD to my external disk drive. I >>> have to use VO Right arrow to highlight the external drive. How can I >>> change this back to the way it was? 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