[Simon]

OK, we have a visitor at our lab. He's a 100% Win guy, but out Dell guest box just went up in smoke (well actually it's PS burned, not the whole box).

So we gave him a PowerBook instead. However, he's terribly uncomfortable with it because he can't navigate menus with the keyboard. He can't find the underlined letters in the menus to select with the alt-key...

So, does OS X Jaguar have this built in (I couldn't find it in Universal Access system pref) or are there any third-party extensions to enable selection and navigation through menubar menus with the keyboard?

I'm thinking of something like ctrl-f9 to drop down the first menu and then arrow keys to navigate or something similar. Anybody here know a way to do that?

[engaged]

Does this help?

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.

[Simon]

Originally posted by engaged:
Does this help?

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.

Actually it doesn't. Sorry.

I checked that page, but it is of no help. Apple says with Universal Access ctrl-f2 should highlight the menu. It doesn't however. It just lets the little menu sign appear next to the mouse cursor (as if you just pressed ctrl by itself).

So, I'm still looking for some way to get this to work.

[iJed]

Do this:

1) Open System Preferences

2) Click on "Full Keyboard Access" tab

3) Turn it on

4) Read the instructions on the dialog. Now control-f2 will work.

[Zadian]

Originally posted by Simon:
Apple says with Universal Access ctrl-f2 should highlight the menu.

On a Powerbook ist should be ctr-funciton key - f1 (to activate keyboard controll)
and crf-fn-f2 for the menu.

The fn and f2 keys should be pressed on the same time.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Zadian:
On a Powerbook ist should be ctr-funciton key - f1 (to activate keyboard controll)
and crf-fn-f2 for the menu.

The fn and f2 keys should be pressed on the same time.

Ah shucks. I forgot to make sure he pressed fn and f2.

He of course didn't.

I told him and it's now working.

Thanks.