FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions

[Harding, Daniel B]

Yves' suggestion is more useful to my needs that Wim's, since it can be done with a quick keypress rather than having to touch that obscene rodent thingie, although both will take you to the page where the cursor currently resides... if it is in text.

I'm not really referring to moving from somewhere else in the document to the page where the cursor is though. It's more of an issue of being able to spot a thin sliver of a black cursor in black text, that is blinking very slowly, within a huge amount of screen real estate.

The issue I have with both of the above solutions is that they require an action on my part. I want to be able to configure the color, size, and blink rate of the cursor, so I can tell at a glance where it is, not fumble around to find where it is or have to put the cursor somewhere just to know where it is.

Dan Harding
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Daube
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: FrameMaker 10 Interface/Accessibility questions

On 12 Jul 2011 at 20:15, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote:

> Did you know that FrameMaker 10 has a command (button) to go to the 
> cursor
> location: it's right next to the zoom buttons, bottom of the screen.

On 13 Jul 2011 at 8:10, Yves Barbion wrote:

> C'mon now, Adobe, I'm wondering what the use of this "Go to Insertion 
> Point "button is. Just press your left or right arrow key and hold 
> down the SHIFT key while you're doing this, and you'll see your 
> insertion point very clearly.

Friends, the pont is: can I instantly spot the cursor location on a large screen to assure that my paste operation hits the right target? visual feedback is the basic requirement in a user interface (and not the design satisying only black-clothed people).

Nowadays so much more mousing is required than in the good old FM < 9 days, because many Windows features (e.g. title area of app window) are just ignored by the new interface. 
Focus is lost every now and then (e.g. after zooming), need to click into the doc window... Some very basic things hamper the otherwise not so bad new interface.

Let's stop the rant now - it does not solve a single issue.
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