[mac4theblind] Re: help on help!

  • From: "George B" <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:19:51 -0800

I gess you did not beleave me when I said command tab only changes
applications

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julio C. Perez
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 09:18
> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: help on help!
> 
> So, when I press command-tab twice, it doesn't bring me to the
> previously open help topic I left. It only switches me to the other
> application windows or brings me back to the same VO utilities window.
> If I go to the menu and arrow down the windows options, I only see one
> applications window available to choose from. Is one of those other
> options on that windows drop-down the one I need to take me back to the
> topic I left? How does one switch to different windows within an
> application window?
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 12:00 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> 
> > try command-tab twice.
> >
> > On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:47 AM, George B wrote:
> >
> > First of all command tab changes your application from one to another
> not
> > windows within a application.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-
> >> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julio C. Perez
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 08:44
> >> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: help on help!
> >>
> >> Ok, here is an example..
> >>
> >> I am currently in a help window that has . here is an even better
> >> example of not having a clue of something that should be (and needs
> to
> >> be) understood by a neophyte.
> >>
> >> As I am writing this message, I switch to another window where I'm
> >> working with a help topic. I switch back to this window to write
> >> something and when I use the "command-tab" hoping to return to the
> help
> >> window. I end up back in the VoiceOver utilities area. Not the help
> >> topic I thought I would be going to. How do I make this simple
> switch
> >> from one window to another without having to navigate back to the
> topic
> >> layer after linked layer?
> >>
> >> This is the sort of thing that I never had to think about before.
> >> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:24 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> >>
> >>> can you give us an example?  I believe I know what you need to do
> but
> >> rather than searching through help for an item, it would speed up
> the
> >> process having an example.
> >>>
> >>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Julio C. Perez wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It seems like the more I think I've learned, the more I know I've
> >> missed!
> >>>
> >>> Right now I'm going through the VoiceOver help menu seeking areas
> I'm
> >> weak on and hoping to learn more. When I get to a "show" clickable
> >> object, I select it. and nothing seems to happen except that it
> changes
> >> from a "show" to a "hide" area. Where does the related information
> get
> >> shown? What part of this process am I not getting?
> >>>
> >>> I can freely admit that navigation and safari navigation in
> >> particular are my weakest areas. This makes learning via the
> provided
> >> help topics slow. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for
> transplanted
> >> windows/internet explorer/JAWS users? I mean, there should be enough
> of
> >> us by now to have, at least, an email list that can serve as a place
> to
> >> trade and ask for information that might bore those of you for whom
> the
> >> mac environment is natural.
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