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A magic trackpad with Mac mini, will it provide more accessibility?

By Ramy, 22 June, 2022

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Hello all:

I got a magic Trackpad as A gift, and am thinking of using it with my mac mini, but i know that it has some extra shortcuts that i should study.
1- Is there a full tutorial on how to use it with VOice over?
2- will it actually provide more accessibility or easy of use with mac? or just use it for fun?

thanks in advance

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Trackpad commander

By Jason White

9 months ago

For the list of gestures, invoke VoiceOver Utility, and look under Commanders -> Trackpad Commanders -> Assign Commands.
This gives you a table of gestures that you can modify, if you wish.
So far as I know, they're all equivalent to VoiceOver keyboard commands.

will they save time?

By Ramy

9 months ago

Aha thanks , BUt will they save time or just another way of controling our Macs?

I use my track pad all the time

By Siobhan

9 months ago

I love it, it makes me more sighted. I swipe down to read, as if i were on my phone. You can control the mac I would say faster. Instead of using keyboard, I usually just use it.

Will it react like an actual mouse?

By Ramy

9 months ago

Great, but have 2 questions here:
1- how can i study it's Gestures? can i have a training mode or what?
2- will it react like an actual mouse? i mean will it have a left click etc?

Keyboard help

By Jason White

9 months ago

Use Ctrl-Option-K to start Keyboard Help. VoiceOver will announce the command associated with any trackpad gesture that you give. Escape ends keyboard help.

Depends on your workflow

By Wenwei

9 months ago

Trackpad gestures don't make Mac more accessible, exactly; they're just an alternative way to do anything you could use your keyboard for. I used to rely on trackpad gestures a lot because they made sense to me and I used to have a microphone that would pick up every single sound. Nowadays, it's a great alternative for automating my workflow when I don't want to spare a keyboard shortcut. I personally also find certain gestures easier to remember–e.g., go to window or application chooser. There are some gestures you can assign that require clicking + modifier key. I use these gestures to simulate a VO mouse click when needed because I can never remember the keyboard shortcut. Since someone already gifted you a Magic Trackpad, just go for it. You literally have nothing to lose.

Keyboard for forced click I think

By Siobhan

9 months ago

Pretty sure it's Voice Over shift space. I don't know why I had to write that... ;) Seriously, dude, just try it and if worse comes to worse and you hate it, sell it. My only problem and i can't stop this is that I continuously bump the pad while typing. Annoying AF to be honest.

Re keyboard help

By Ramy

9 months ago

Ok great, but what if i need the Vice-versa? need to know how can i do something with the Trackpad? like if i need to open something? go to computer? how can i study that?

Re: workflo

By Ramy

9 months ago

AHa great, but how can i use it as an actual mouse left click?

moving between opened windows?

By Ramy

8 months 3 weeks ago

I can not find a way to move between opened windows using the trackpad? so if i have Safari and mail and my computer opened, how can i move between them?

can not find trackpad commanders

By Ramy

8 months 3 weeks ago

Under voiceover Utilities, i can not find the trackpad commanders, i opened the COmmanders tap but i have 3 tabs inside, none of. them is is anything related to Trackpad,
any Help?

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