For those who followed Chad's question about not being able to move a track, here's an explanation of what I believe to be the problem and a solution. Chad sent me his Pro Tools file and I had a look at it. As I've said before, the number one reason why moving tracks or mouse clicking occasionally doesn't work with VoiceOver is because there's a dialog or window obscuring the underlying UI element. In Chad's situation, this wasn't the case. The issue, it seems, is that there are over 70 tracks in the session. The Tracks List table is capable of displaying perhaps 32 or so at best. Visually, there's a scroll bar to expose the invisible tracks. With a physical mouse click and drag, moving up or down that table will automatically scroll the list. As you probably know, VoiceOver is capable of seeing items despite they're being hidden and so, when you have 70 tracks and you're trying to move the fifty-ninth track, even though VoiceOver is reading the name and it appears that you're focused on it, it's actually out of view and performing a mouse click yields an undesirable effect like bringing up the Groups List pop-up menu.
So, here's how I got around the problem and this should work in similar circumstances: Hide all other tracks and show only the track you wish to move and the track in front of which you wish to move. That sounds confusing, I know. Let's say you want to move track 59 to follow track 51, you would only show tracks 59 and 52. When you drag a track "over" another, it will jump in front of that track so, if you want to follow track 51, you need to drag to track 52 and the dragged track will jump in front of 52 or, in other words, after track 51. Next, make sure track 59 is the only selected track. OK, since you only have tracks 59 and 52 showing. the track list will still show all of the tracks but the mix window's main section will only display the two tracks that are shown. Move to track 59 and interact with it. Navigate to the track's name toward the bottom of the channel strip. A quick way to do this is to press Control-Option-End and move backwards. When you're focused on the name, issue the mouse-down command. Stop interacting with track 59 and navigate to track 52, interact and move down to the name just like you did with track 59 and issue the mouse-up command. It's entirely possible that it's not necessary to interact with that second track and maybe the drag will work as expected. I haven't tried that but I wouldn't be surprised if that worked just as well. Hopefully, that'll help others who might experience the same issues. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
