Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

2016-04-23 Thread Kevin Chao
When an Alert dialog is displayed like this, VO-Shift-DOwn Arrow to interact > VO-Right arrow to traverse the elements > VO-Spacebar to activate button. I made a short-audio demo of deleting a Gmail label: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwr83d0TyR2fZW1OSURoSTJ5UjQ/view?usp=sharing On Fri, Apr 22

Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

2016-04-22 Thread erik burggraaf
Well, it's not exactly what you want, but you could set up a keyboard commander key that would replace control option f1 f1 or control option fn f1 f1. That's the bigest hurdle anyway. I agreee it would be nice to have a key to set focus directly to system dialogs; however, sometimes I need to

Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

2016-04-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
For browser alerts like this it is best to use the tab key. Using voice over navigation could put you anywhere within the page but usually tabbing puts focus near or on the OK button for the dialogue. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:09 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi S

Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

2016-04-22 Thread Shaf Patel
I wish there was a way we could customize a keyboard shortcut to quickly pull up the system dialog list, or even rapidly switch between them. I emailed Apple about this and obviously got a generic "we'll look into this" response. On 4/22/2016 1:09 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi Sandy, > > Here a

Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

2016-04-22 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Sandy, Here are the general steps for accessing system dialogs. hold down the control and option keys and press f1 twice quickly. Note that depending on how your keyboard is set up you may also have to hold the fn key in order to make the f1 a software key. Arrow up and down the menu until y