Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #6
— ♣Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a weekly 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 using iTunes to enjoy music, video, or podcast content, you may want a quick way to control the playback of your media. Many of these controls are located in the Controls menu, but two of the most useful ones are mysteriously absent. When a file is playing, (or even when it is paused), you can use Command-Option Left or Right Arrow to Fastback or Fastforward the track. Holding down the hot keys is a quick way to skip through that boring guitar solo or the intro to your favorite podcast you’ve heard a million times before and get right to the good stuff.
Until next time!