21 May, 2008 @ 9:00 am by Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
In Mail, you can quickly jump to the top or bottom of the mailboxes table with Option-Up Arrow or Option-Down Arrow. This is a great way to quickly get to the mailbox or RSS feed you wish to peruse, particularly if you have a large number of folders, mailboxes, and feeds to organize your mail.
Until next time!
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14 May, 2008 @ 9:00 am by Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
When navigating the Songs table in iTunes, you can quickly move the Play Target to the currently selected track by pressing Enter. The track will immediately begin playing. Using the Spacebar will only pause the currently playing track, or start playing the track which is currently marked with the Play Target, regardless of which track is selected. The Play Target can be found in the Status column of the Songs table.
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7 May, 2008 @ 9:00 am by Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com. It’s ongoing mission: To explore brief tips, to seek out new tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience, and to boldly provide access where no Mac has gone before. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
MacBooks have function keys set to control aspects of the system’s hardware by default. Depending on your version of OS X, you may need to press and hold the "FN" key, located in the extreme lower left of your keyboard, to access this functionality.
The most commonly used keys are those to control the system volume. On models of MacBook released prior to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the "Lower Volume" and "Raise Volume" controls will be on the "F4" and "F5" keys respectively. On newer MacBooks, these commands will be located on "F11" and "F12" respectively.
Sometimes, though, controlling the volume this way can be a little frustrating. Often, you may find that the difference in volume between one level and the next is too great, and you just can’t fine-tune the volume to a comfortable level. Here’s a trick to remedy that problem. Hold down Option-Shift while adjusting the volume with the function keys, and it will change by much smaller increments, allowing you to find just the right level of audio output.
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30 April, 2008 @ 9:00 am by Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is an ongoing feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!
Finding it hard to remember all those great VoiceOver navigation commands while browsing the web? You can bring up a complete list of them in a menu, including their key commands, by pressing VO-Shift-F for "Find". And, as an added bonus, did you know that those same commands will work in documents as well, such as those created with TextEdit?
Until Next time!
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