7 November, 2007 @ 5:21 pm by Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a Lioncourt.com featured series of useful tips and tricks to help blind and visually impaired Mac users become more efficient with their Mac. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will be applicable to both Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. So, on to this week’s tip!
The one thing that computer users of any platform do more than any other is launch applications. This week’s tip…or really group of tips…focuses on making the launching of applications faster and easier.
When perusing your Applications folder, (or any folder of files and documents), most users are accustomed to pressing Command-O to open them. This is not as convenient as it might be if your right hand is already over the arrow keys. A more convenient equivalent to pressing Command-O is Command-Down Arrow. This will launch the currently selected application or open the currently selected file.
But what about all those lovely application icons you ahve on your Dock? Wouldn’t it be nice to arrange those in any order you like? Well, you can. When on the Dock, move focus to the application who’s icon you wish to move and use Option-Left Arrow or Option-Right Arrow to move it one place over in the respective direction. But if that’s not enough…
In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you can now type the first few letters of an Application’s name while you are on the Dock, and focus will automatically jump to that application. Just hit Return or Space to open it.
Until next time!
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