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Can't move mouse pointer to VO Cursor

By mr grieves, 19 November, 2022

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I'm having another silly problem....

I'm trying to drag and drop, but when I press VO+Shift+F5 it is selecting the menu as if I was using VO+M. If I start keyboard help, then VO+Shift+F5 it tells me it will move the mouse pointer to the VO cursor.

Is it broken in Ventura or have I done something?

I did have a bit of a nightmare in keyboard settings earlier in the week. I use numpad commander and if you go to keyboard settings and use numpad 6 to go through the options on the page, it's very easy to accidentally set up numpad 6 as the dictation button because you just find yourself in the option to reassign the modifier. Took me ages to figure that out - and then somehow I broke Cmd+Tab which was a disaster. I reset my keyboard shortcuts and it seems to be fixed, but I can't get VO+Shift+F5 back.

It makes no difference if I use control and option or Caps Lock as my VO keys.

Any ideas or is this yet another VO bug?

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Fun with F5

By PaulMartz

10 months 2 weeks ago

Member of the AppleVis Blog Team

VO+Command+F5 moves the mouse pointer to the VO cursor.

VO+Shift+F5 moves the VO cursor to the mouse pointer.

Do you possibly have these mixed up?

As an added bonus, VO+F5 announces what is under the mouse pointer.

Thank you!

By mr grieves

10 months 2 weeks ago

Club AppleVis Member

It was inevitable that this would end up as stupidity on my part. Yes, that's exactly it - thank you!! The worst bit is I was using VO+K and it was telling me just that, but my stupid brain was just hearing what it was expecting not what was being said.

I don't know what it is but the lat few weeks I seem to have totally lost the plot with VoiceOver. This is not the right place to use this analogy, but I've been finding recently that I really can't see the wood for the trees. This time I was so convinced I'd messed up the keyboard shortcuts, it didn't even occur to me what I was actually doing.

Anyway, thanks for setting me straight so quickly! Time for another lie down I think....

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