My first impressions of VoiceOver.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:22:29AM EST, Bailey, Bruce wrote:
> > The menu bar is accessible, but you can't quickly pull down
> > menus to select items, 
> 
> Most of the common menu commands have keystroke shortcuts.  But try this:  Control-F2 to get to menu bar.  Tap a letter to jump to main menu that starts with that letter.  (Should you have two menus that start with the same letter, then type two letters.)  Down arrow to open menu, letter to jump to sub menu item.  These keyboard shortcuts work WITHOUT VoiceOver running.

You learn something new every day. I guess you found those in the help? 
I think I need to do some more reading. :)

> > and most of the interface can't be accessed directly with the
> > keyboard without VoiceOver, eg HTML content.
> 
> Tab, Option-Tab, and arrow keys work most places.  Sure, for read-only text (like HTML content) you can't get cursor there without VoiceOver, but Windows has the exact same limitation.

True, but thanks to Windows screen readers, you only need to use the 
arrow keys to read HTML content, unlike what one has to do with 
VoiceOver.
-- 
Luke

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