Item chooser in iOS

2023-06-23 Thread Phil Halton
Has anyone else noticed that the item chooser in iOS, activated with a two finger triple tap, is very unreliable? I find that it rarely works in webpages with a lot of links. Or, sometimes it will work once, and no more while on that same page. is item chooser unable to handle a large number of

Has anyone been able to use the item chooser when in a Word document that you've opened in Pages?

2022-08-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, When I try and do this, items only show up if I’m on that page in the document. Then, if I press enter on an item, I’m unceremoniously deposited somewhere else in the document. Is there any way to use the item chooser in a Word doc that you’ve opened in pages? TIA, Donna -- The

Item chooser causes Safari to report busy in Big Sur

2020-12-22 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hi, In Big Sur when I’m in Safari and activate item chooser menu, Safari reports busy and I can’t use this feature. I have to escape from item chooser menu to be able to use safari again. Anybody can confirm this? It makes item chooser menu in Safari unusable. Shame as it is such a useful

Re: An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-26 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, First of all are you running a fairly new version of MacOS? For the past three years Safari has generally not started filling out the item chooser until you start typing. I find this much more effective. There are also too search command types VO and Native. The VO search is control

Re: An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-26 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
rence between it and the Item chooser? On Nov 26, 2019, at 1:25 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Have you tried using Voiceover find commands? You can open the Find Commands menu with VO-Shift-F to see a list of all find commands. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icl

Re: An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-26 Thread Phil Halton
I bet if you played around with it for a few minutes you’d find out. Sent from my IPhone > On Nov 26, 2019, at 4:02 AM, Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر > wrote: > > ok, so , what is the difference between it and the Item chooser? > >> On Nov 26, 2019, a

Re: An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-26 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر
ok, so , what is the difference between it and the Item chooser? > On Nov 26, 2019, at 1:25 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Have you tried using Voiceover find commands? You can open the Find > Commands menu with VO-Shift-F to see a list of all find c

Re: An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-25 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر wrote: Hi all: After a long time using Chrome on windows, and when i get back to safari on mac, i start hating Safari because of the item chooser. on windows, just use the NVDA+contrl+F and it opens in a nothing, i start typing what i need and it can find it

An alternative to Item chooser on safari?

2019-11-25 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber رامي مصطفى صابر
Hi all: After a long time using Chrome on windows, and when i get back to safari on mac, i start hating Safari because of the item chooser. on windows, just use the NVDA+contrl+F and it opens in a nothing, i start typing what i need and it can find it in no time, even if the site is so big

Re: ATTN Kevin Chao item chooser was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-02-16 Thread Kevin Chao
VoiceOver crash logs can be found by: Open the Console from the Application->Utilities, you will see the log files. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:15 AM erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I haven't forgotten about you. I've been keeping an eye on the issue with > the ite

Re: bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-02-12 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
5 years or so before discovering it and now I am a bit annoyed that it doesn't exist in chrome. More to come on the item chooser. Best, Erik Burggraaf On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Kevin Chao <mailto:ch...@google.com>> wrote: THanks Erik! Look forward to learning details from

ATTN Kevin Chao item chooser was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-02-12 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Kevin, I haven't forgotten about you. I've been keeping an eye on the issue with the item chooser and chrome. It happens pretty regularly, but I haven't really found you a good site to work with. I mean, It happens to me when I'm logged into my myebay profile. It a

Re: bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-01-31 Thread Jonathan Cohn
tcut keys that load whichever >>>> bookmark is in that position on the bar. The left most bookmark is >>>> command 1, and the right most is command 0. I lived without this browsing >>>> feature for 15 years or so before discovering it and now I am a bit >&

Re: bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-01-30 Thread erik burggraaf
ookmark is command >>> 1, and the right most is command 0. I lived without this browsing feature >>> for 15 years or so before discovering it and now I am a bit annoyed that it >>> doesn't exist in chrome. >>> >>> More to come on the item cho

Re: bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-01-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
, and the right >> most is command 0. I lived without this browsing feature for 15 years or so >> before discovering it and now I am a bit annoyed that it doesn't exist in >> chrome. >> >> More to come on the item chooser. >> >> Best, >>

Re: bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-01-30 Thread ben J. Bloomgren
eft most bookmark is command 1, and the right most > is command 0. I lived without this browsing feature for 15 years or so > before discovering it and now I am a bit annoyed that it doesn't exist in > chrome. > > More to come on the item chooser. > > Best, >

bookmarks bar was Re: Mac Chrome: Item Chooser and Bookmark Bar

2016-01-30 Thread erik burggraaf
noyed that it doesn't exist in chrome. More to come on the item chooser. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Jan 29, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Kevin Chao wrote: > > THanks Erik! > Look forward to learning details from you re: item chooser and bookmarks > bar... > > On Wed, Jan

Re: item chooser

2015-02-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jean, On a laptop keyboard, you add the FN key to the left arrow for Home, to the right arrow for End, to the up arrow for Page Up, and to the down arrow for Page Down. Cheers, Anne > On 19 Feb 2015, at 22:47, Jean wrote: > > David and All: > On some pages the item c

item chooser

2015-02-19 Thread Jean
David and All: On some pages the item chooser works fine but on most it is a very long delay before it appears and sometimes it doesn’t appear at all. I have an eleven inch Air so how would I do the end key within the context of the item chooser? Would this make it appear more quickly? As

Re: item chooser

2015-02-19 Thread David Griffith
The behaviour of item chooser has changed in Yosemite. What used to happen is that there would be a delay, sometimes quite a long delay and then item chooser in its entirety would come up. Now, on my system at least, item chooser will appear much sooner but not with the full list of items

item chooser

2015-02-19 Thread Jean
Hello All: I have just up-graded to Yosemite after waiting for things to settle down. Things seem ok on the whole so far except for the item chooser in Safari. Are there any strategies for beating it into submission? Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Trackpad Item chooser gesture

2015-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
dom use my track pad but was just reading that holding the shift key >> and swiping right with one finger would launch the item chooser menu, but I >> am getting a ding when doing it and yes my trackpad commander is turned on. >> What could I be doing wrong here? Thanks, >

Re: Trackpad Item chooser gesture

2015-01-17 Thread Colin Matthews
17 Jan 2015, at 21:35, Brian Fischler wrote: > I seldom use my track pad but was just reading that holding the shift key and > swiping right with one finger would launch the item chooser menu, but I am > getting a ding when doing it and yes my trackpad commander is turned on. What >

Trackpad Item chooser gesture

2015-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
I seldom use my track pad but was just reading that holding the shift key and swiping right with one finger would launch the item chooser menu, but I am getting a ding when doing it and yes my trackpad commander is turned on. What could I be doing wrong here? Thanks, -- You received this

Re: item chooser in safari

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Yes, you are right. Under Mavericks, item chooser menu behaved differently. But I think it may have something to do with the most recent upgrade to Safari. Others have noticed it too. Please report your experiences to apple accessibility. > On 2 Dec 2014, at 06:55, Faisal ali wr

Re: item chooser in safari

2014-12-01 Thread David Griffith
No Mavericks did not behave like this. If you listen to some of my Maverick Safari Podcast you will hear how this is actually an invaluable feature of item chooser whereby you can quickly access parts of the Safari Toolbar which are otherwise awkward to access. However what I think you may

Re: item chooser in safari

2014-12-01 Thread Faisal ali
Hi, so are you not able to just make safari show items on the webpage as appose to the entire web browser? Although I cannot be sure, but I swear under mavericks, the item chooser menu behaved differently than this. > On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > I think you wan

Re: item chooser in safari

2014-12-01 Thread Alex Hall
I think you want the web rotor. Press vo-shift-u on the page, then use left/right arrows to get to the category you want. Once there, up/down arrow, or start typing the name of the item you want. > On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi all, > when I load item choos

item chooser in safari

2014-12-01 Thread Faisal ali
Hi all, when I load item chooser in safari, the list shows everything from the sidebar, to favourites and all my bookmarks and tool bar. When I load item chooser, I am only interested in seeing items on the current website I’m on. Is there a way to do this? Thanks -- You received this message

Re: Item chooser menu doesn't list all the elements on a website in mavericks 10.95

2014-09-23 Thread Andrew Lamanche
oad statement" link which I normally used to use. They were very >> courteous and suggested a few tweaks in Safari like resetting it etc. While >> they were discussing the problem with their colleagues, I asked my sighted >> partner to look at the page, and lo and beho

Re: Item chooser menu doesn't list all the elements on a website in mavericks 10.95

2014-09-23 Thread Traci Duncan
es, I asked my sighted > partner to look at the page, and lo and behold, the download link is there, > right at the bottom of the page in a table. But item chooser menu doesn't > list it, nor any other elements in this particular table unless you are > actually focused with Voi

Item chooser menu doesn't list all the elements on a website in mavericks 10.95

2014-09-23 Thread Andrew Lamanche
their colleagues, I asked my sighted partner to look at the page, and lo and behold, the download link is there, right at the bottom of the page in a table. But item chooser menu doesn't list it, nor any other elements in this particular table unless you are actually focused with Voiceove

Re: item chooser

2013-12-08 Thread Esther
ccwiner wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > > I can see just enough that if I open the item chooser or the other such menus > by using VO plus u or i, that the menu pops up on the screen. For some > reason, this menu is not popping up on the screen anymore. I can still use &

item chooser

2013-12-07 Thread Christina C.
Hello everyone, I can see just enough that if I open the item chooser or the other such menus by using VO plus u or i, that the menu pops up on the screen. For some reason, this menu is not popping up on the screen anymore. I can still use the item chooser but it is no longer showing up on

keyboard command for launching the Item Chooser was Re: iPod Touch

2011-10-26 Thread Marc Workman
Ricardo wrote, > For example, you can't use a keyboard to delete applications or bring up the > item chooser. The first part is true, but the second is not. VO-I will bring up the item chooser like it does on the Mac, unless this is a feature specific to iPhones. I'm a

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
My mistake I confused VO F with Command Option F, which I usually do on the right hand of the keyboard. That would be my one complaint about that keystroke, its slightly awkward placement when touch typing. However, there's nothing inherently wrong with either method. When I use Items Chooser

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-20 Thread David Eagle
. Press VO G to find the next instance. I use this all the time to search for links, such as download and find it very useful; but if the item chooser works better for you then that's great. On 20 Oct 2011, at 19:11, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > VO F takes me, at least, to a google se

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-20 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
VO F takes me, at least, to a google search box. Were I to type Download in the first forms field VO came to after pressing VO F, I would not get the same download link, but would rather be searching for the word "download," throughout the whole web. The procedures would not yield the same res

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-20 Thread David Eagle
OUt of interest, could you not just press VO F and type download to get to the download link? I've never used the Item Chooser, so I'm just inquisitive about why you use it as opposed to VO F which I use all the time. Thanks On 20 Oct 2011, at 04:36, Brianna Snyder wrote: > Hi,

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-19 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi, It now works for me, and I'm using the latest Safari. Brianna On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Dan Roy wrote: > Have you found that item chooser doesn't work as well since Safari 5.1? I > haven't yet tried it with 5.11 however, it certainly wasn't finding all

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-19 Thread Dan Roy
Have you found that item chooser doesn't work as well since Safari 5.1? I haven't yet tried it with 5.11 however, it certainly wasn't finding all the data when using 5.1 as opposed to 5.0. On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > I LOVE Items choosie

Re: Basic item chooser question

2011-10-18 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I LOVE Items choosier, but usually use it on web pages where there can be hundreds of links. Once you VO space on an item from the items chooser menu, though, yo have to invoke it again with VO I and put in the item you looked for again to keep scrolling down its choices. That's why it's good

Basic item chooser question

2011-10-18 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Playing with item chooser, and I have a basic question. When I select an item and go to it, how can I get back to the item chooser orto scroll down the other occurances of the item? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVision

item chooser again

2011-10-04 Thread Eugenia Firth
I am running Lion. I know we discussed the item chooser, but I had trouble with it this morning. I was trying to call up old versions because 1@ wanted to see if the current one was missing text I might have deleted. I did the VO-f2 and got finally the list of dates (there was only three

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-24 Thread Dan Roy
Paul, I have found vo-F to be not so accurate. I search for things I know are there, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. However, I can work between the rotor and vo-F to almost duplicate item chooser, but, not nearly as smooth. Well, it is what it is until there's a fix.

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Erkens
>> Dan, >> >> The problem is caused by I am not exactly sure what, Apple are aware of the >> specific issue with the Item Chooser and VO, and its across the board I'm >> afraid, not just limited to the two aspects you mention. >> >> One thing that wo

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-23 Thread Dan Roy
ctly sure what, Apple are aware of the > specific issue with the Item Chooser and VO, and its across the board I'm > afraid, not just limited to the two aspects you mention. > > One thing that won't hurt is you dropping a line to accessibil...@apple.com > to voice your fr

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-23 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Dan, The problem is caused by I am not exactly sure what, Apple are aware of the specific issue with the Item Chooser and VO, and its across the board I'm afraid, not just limited to the two aspects you mention. One thing that won't hurt is you dropping a line to accessibil...@ap

Re: Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
ay.foretjr.1 On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Dan Roy wrote: > I know this has ben discussed before, but, I bet, by now, someone has figured > this out. > > the Item chooser doesn't seem to work under Lion using either Safari or > Webkit. It comes up, but, the letter navigat

Item Chooser Under Lion

2011-09-22 Thread Dan Roy
I know this has ben discussed before, but, I bet, by now, someone has figured this out. the Item chooser doesn't seem to work under Lion using either Safari or Webkit. It comes up, but, the letter navigation doesn't work properly. It shows some vary odd results. I know abou

Re: Item Chooser in Safari, Lion OSx

2011-08-08 Thread Mike Arrigo
ions with Safari within Lion and the > Item Chooser. > > I have noted that the Item Chooser, when exclusively used within Safari, > seems to for an inexplicable reason not pick up all items in the window, even > though the same site in Snow Leopard it does. > > Originally

Item Chooser in Safari, Lion OSx

2011-08-08 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Hi Folks, Hoping someone can verify my observations with Safari within Lion and the Item Chooser. I have noted that the Item Chooser, when exclusively used within Safari, seems to for an inexplicable reason not pick up all items in the window, even though the same site in Snow Leopard it does

had a thought about the lion and item chooser

2011-08-01 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; I am still using leopard so this is just a guess. when using the item chooser it will close itself if the page hasn't finished loading. I've heard that the lion has a feature that allows certain parts of the screen to keep changing as info in that part of the page chang

Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
From: "carolyn Haas" To: Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:36 PM Subject: Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved! Hi Zach: I've always used it instead of the item chooser. I set option F to do this for the sake of convenience, and foun

Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Zach: I've always used it instead of the item chooser. I set option F to do this for the sake of convenience, and found after that Never messed with the item chooser at all. On Jul 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Chris and All, > Maybe I'm missing somethi

Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
t maybe Apple now wants us using > vo+F in Safari. I don't know if that would work everywhere globally, but it > sure as hell does in Safari. Even the things like the gmail sign out link, > or the hazel nuts etc. all those that you all've reported don't work in the >

RE: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Missy Hoppe
Oh wow! That really is great news! I haven't played much with saphari yet, and hadn't gotten into habbit of using item chooser in any case, but I'm really realieved that you've managed to cross 1 lion bug off your list! Congratulations! -Original Message-

Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
ads me to think that maybe Apple now wants us using >> vo+F in Safari. I don't know if that would work everywhere globally, but it >> sure as hell does in Safari. Even the things like the gmail sign out link, >> or the hazel nuts etc. all those that you all'v

Re: Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Zachary Kline
> sure as hell does in Safari. Even the things like the gmail sign out link, > or the hazel nuts etc. all those that you all've reported don't work in the > item chooser list, I too confirm they don't with vo+I, but visually on screen > or not, they work perfectly h

Absolutely incredibly awesome finding in Safari, Item chooser issue resolved!

2011-07-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
you all've reported don't work in the item chooser list, I too confirm they don't with vo+I, but visually on screen or not, they work perfectly here with vo+F. Wait ago! Apple! I can't believe that none of us thought of trying this sooner. I guess I just assumed that vo+F s

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-23 Thread Austin Seraphin
I think you hit on the problem, and I still have messages to read, so perhaps someone said this. Visibility seems to affect what shows up in the item chooser. Go to the top of a problem page and try it. Remember the number of items and some of the itemsthe in the list. Then go to the bottom and

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-22 Thread Dan Roy
Personally, I have duplicated this problem on at least 3 sites. For whatever reason, it seems as though item chooser isn't seeing everything. On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Austin, > > I'm having the same issue, yes. > > Chris. &g

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-22 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
and of course, it's not like you can do vo+F, as that only works if the item actually is visible on the screen visually. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Donna Goodin" To: Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:53 PM Subject: Re: Item Chooser Problem I am as well, and I a

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-22 Thread Donna Goodin
I am as well, and I agree. the item chooser was incredibly handy when viewing large web pages in Safari. Donna On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:43 PM, carlene knight wrote: > I'm having the same issue, and I was addicted to the thing, especially when > using Facebook or finding articles that

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-22 Thread carlene knight
I'm having the same issue, and I was addicted to the thing, especially when using Facebook or finding articles that the Reader couldn't. On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > Oh dear. I love the item chooser, and just tried using it on a web page. I > tried typi

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Austin, I'm having the same issue, yes. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Austin Seraphin" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Item Chooser Problem My item chooser problem didn't happen on gmail, it happened while shoppi

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Austin Seraphin
My item chooser problem didn't happen on gmail, it happened while shopping. Ok go to: http://www.tazachocolate.com/store/nibsandbeans Now for example, let's say you want to go to the chocolate covered hazelnuts. Hit Vo-I, then type "ha". It should bring up the hazelnuts, bu

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I'd have to agree, as the item chooser seems to be working pretty well everywhere else. this is the first thing I've found where it didn't. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Miller" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 5:43 PM Subject: RE: Item Choose

RE: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, Perhaps it's not the fault of the item chooser, and a fault of Gmail instead? I wouldn't know, since I have mine set up through mail, but it's just a thought. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Hmm. Let me run in there real quick and try. Totally, strange. I too am having this issue. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Brett C." To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 5:13 PM Subject: Re: Item Chooser Problem I noticed an issue as well. While in my gmail account in

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Brett C.
I noticed an issue as well. While in my gmail account in Safari, I use item chooser to quickly find the sign out link. The item chooser now acts as though "sign out" doesn't exist. This is in both HTML and standard view. I'd like to know if anyone has this same experience.

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, weird. Item chooser is working fine here with Safari to the best I can tell. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Austin Seraphin" To: Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:51 PM Subject: Item Chooser Problem Oh dear. I love the item chooser, and just tried using it on a w

Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-21 Thread Austin Seraphin
Oh dear. I love the item chooser, and just tried using it on a web page. I tried typing a few letters in a row to narrow down the selection, but it just acted like I typed one letter. Now it just seems unpredictable with multiple letters. Interestingly, I tried it in mail and it worked as

Re: Using Item Chooser in Garage Band to find things

2011-01-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
logies if this is not any kind of news to some Garage Band users, > but I wanted to bring to the attention of those who are just starting > using this software, that it is possible to utilize the Item Chooser > feature of Voiceover (Control+Option+I) to find things on the screen. >

Usint Item Chooser

2011-01-30 Thread Dane Trethowan
Thank you for reminding us of the Item Chooser, a highly useful tool which can be used to find things extremely quickly in sometimes cluttered screens, I find myself using it a lot in Itunes for example, the Item Chooser is one of those Voiceover tools that doesn't get mentioned enough.

Using Item Chooser in Garage Band to find things

2011-01-30 Thread Victor Tsaran
Hello all, Apologies if this is not any kind of news to some Garage Band users, but I wanted to bring to the attention of those who are just starting using this software, that it is possible to utilize the Item Chooser feature of Voiceover (Control+Option+I) to find things on the screen. This is

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-08 Thread erik burggraaf
bit since it turns out to be pretty poorly researched as well as being amaturishly recorded and all that nonsense, smiles. At least the method does work except for the unfortunate detraction that it only scoops up the contacts that are on the screen. I'm going to test this in other areas wh

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-08 Thread erik burggraaf
ultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-11-04, at 9:48 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Marlaina, > > What I've noticed with Address Book and the Address Panel within Mail itself > is that the I

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-05 Thread Esther
Hi Andy, If you clicked on the link to Erik's tutorial for Marlaina (on using item chooser menu) in Dropbox from mail, and the file is already playing in a plug-in for your Safari browser, you can press Command+L and then press Return. This is a general Mac shortcut (not specific

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-05 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hi Marlaina. I thought of a tip for you. Not to confuse you further, but the function keys can act in two different ways. By default, they perform system functions, such as changing the volume or muting. Watch out for that last one. If you hit F10 it will mute your sound. Just hit it again to un

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-05 Thread Colin M
Hi all! I have the same thing in mine! when I open item chooser only a few of my contacts show up, and I also found it depends on where I was in the address book which ones showed up for example if I was on Alison and did item chooser just names from her to say the letter j showed up then if I

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-05 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, Item chooser is for everything. Learn to use it in any program especially very busy programs like address book and it will make your mac experience 10 times better. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-05 Thread erik burggraaf
ultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-11-04, at 9:48 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Marlaina, > > What I've noticed with Address Book and the Address Panel within Mail itself > is that the I

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
I did on my windows pc; sorry, I can't help you yet with Mac downloading - Original Message - From: "Andy Baracco" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: RE: some newbie mac questions - item chooser How do you download it? When I clicked on the link,

RE: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Andy Baracco
arlaina Lieberg Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:26 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser Erik, I am downloading it now. Many thanks and do not worry about being mic shy. Marlaina - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf&q

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
t 800 contacts, I gotta make that work better, smile. > - Original Message - > From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:13 PM > Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser > > > Hi: > Idem chooser is for the

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Marlaina, What I've noticed with Address Book and the Address Panel within Mail itself is that the Item chooser seems to only work for what it can see within the Table. Maybe Eric can correct me on this but I've been playing with it as well and appear to have the same problems you

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Yah, but with almost 800 contacts, I gotta make that work better, smile. - Original Message - From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:13 PM Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser Hi: Idem chooser is for the web. If you've properl

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
rom: "erik burggraaf" > To: > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:18 PM > Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser > > > OK, You know the old saying, a tutorial is worth a thousand emails. > > Try this. > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12916

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
laina Lieberg wrote: > Ok; I think I am not getting something here. I'm in addressbook on my > macAir and I brought up item chooser; it said 30 items; I started typing > gary and it said go left. What did I not do? > - Original Message - > From: "erik burgg

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
his weekend, all things iPhone will be discussed. Marlaina - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser OK, You know the old saying, a tutorial is worth a thousand emails. Tr

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
ber 04, 2010 3:14 PM Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser Hi Marliana! Also if your happy with all the info in your address book you do not need to use it directly, if I understand one of the things you want to do is add names to a new message or to a message you want to forward!

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Erik, I am downloading it now. Many thanks and do not worry about being mic shy. Marlaina - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser OK, You know the old saying, a t

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Colin M
Hi Marliana! Also if your happy with all the info in your address book you do not need to use it directly, if I understand one of the things you want to do is add names to a new message or to a message you want to forward! Both of these tasks can be done from within mail! If when in mail and you

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Marlaina, Here's another option for using Address Book. • Navigate to the Groups Table. 2. Select the first item, All contacts. 3. Stop Interacting With the Groups Table. 4. Navigate to the Names Table and Interact with it. 5. Press the first couple letters of the first name of the person

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
x27;t get anywhere. I have never used item chooser until today; is there > something basic I need to know first about using item chooser? what happens > to me now is this: > > I do cmd-1 vo-i it says item chooser 42 items. I then start typing karen to > pull up all my karens and

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Erik, Ok so I do cmd-1 and it says card and column then i do vo-i and I still don't get anywhere. I have never used item chooser until today; is there something basic I need to know first about using item chooser? what happens to me now is this: I do cmd-1 vo-i it says item chooser 42

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, try pressing command 1 and then go to the item chooser. Let me know how it goes. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2010-11-04, at 12:43 PM, Marlaina

Re: some newbie mac questions - item chooser

2010-11-04 Thread Marlaina Lieberg
Ok; I think I am not getting something here. I'm in addressbook on my macAir and I brought up item chooser; it said 30 items; I started typing gary and it said go left. What did I not do? - Original Message - From: "erik burggraaf" To: Sent: Thursday, November 0

Re: Could you please explain how Item chooser more powerful?

2009-07-18 Thread Mark Baxter
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