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If you're a #blind #Mac user, you may have never found a use for that bizarre combination of keys which is VO+Shift+F3. this disables cursor-tracking. Let me show you why this may in fact, be one of #VoiceOver's best hidden features you didn't know about.
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@FreakyFwoof Great guide; I was actually looking for a way myself to somehow navigate patches without having them load. The only solution I came to was using a bug with VO multi-select, but this is far nicer to use and doesn't require finger gymnastics or a keyboard shortcut-filled brain. Unrelated question: what were those bloops and tocks when you opened and quit System Settings?
@Minionslayer That would be #Hammerspoon and some sounds from a combination of @guilevi and @jakobrosin.
I have a zip file and readme to explain how to put all the things in-place if that's your interest. As a sound guy, I don't like a machine that doesn't have UI sounds when I'm working.
@FreakyFwoof I totally agree. One thing about MacOS that disappointed me was the sheer lack of UI sounds, and this is definitely something I have to give credit to Windows for. Yes, I'd love that script if you wouldn't mind sending it please.
@FreakyFwoof Thank you very much; will definitely try it out when I'm next at my Mac.
@FreakyFwoof An indispensable set of spoons in my opinion. Thank you very much. Would definitely recommend to literally anyone looking to spice up their MacOS with sounds or wanting to quickly get system info à la Resource Monitor for NVDA.
@Minionslayer Glad you found it useful. Readme was OK then?
@FreakyFwoof Absolutely fine, yes. Only thing I'd suggest is adding a link to the Github page to quickly find out more about how the spoon works itself, but instructions were clear.
@Minionslayer I hope my readme is understandable enough.
@FreakyFwoof @Minionslayer Working here! I already had Hammerspoon running for transpoon, so I needed to modify the instructions quite a bit.
@Minionslayer Please do give that a boost for others if you found it useful. I may stick this on my channel at some point, not going to remake it just to include video though, so would be audio-only.
@FreakyFwoof @Minionslayer hey Andre as always you blow me away with your tips and knowledge. I’ll definitely find the cursor tracking off feature useful. Also I shall find useful the updates to UI sounds which I may also take if that’s ok.
@doubletap @Minionslayer But of course. Enjoy, and thanks for checking that out :)
@FreakyFwoof I used to have to turn off cursor tracking to drag and drop music from iTunes to my old iPod back in the early days of both OS X and the old clickwheel iPods.
@FreakyFwoof This is brilliant. I don’t use Logic, but I can see how this would be useful.
@FreakyFwoof @doubletap Great video. I have actually set this function as an easy keystroke on my numberpad commander because I find it so useful in some apps.
@FreakyFwoof Thank you!!!!! this fixes so many annoying little things about certain apps and there strange tendency's.
@blindelectron You're welcome, glad this could help you.
@FreakyFwoof It depends on how well the list you're scrolling implemented accessibility, but there's one caveat to note. When going down a long list with VO+down past what your screen can display, the list won't likely scroll along with the VO cursor. Pressing VO+Shift+Space could then end up clicking something else. also, don't forget to turn VO cursor tracking back on when you are done. In most cases, you will need it. Otherwise, you could end up activating something else.
@chikim Oh I always have it on, apart from these very rare instances. And yeah, I've seen how it behaves with long lists, it's not pretty.
@FreakyFwoof Yea I figured you already knew that. I was just giving more context for other people who haven't tried the feature. :)
@chikim @FreakyFwoof I also found it useful when dealing with popups that get shown on focus and disappear as soon as the keyboard focus moves away.