Once you get used to naming a mouse click, you might want a little more. Take a look at UC Lesson 10.24 and you’ll find you can combine named mouse touches with other keys in a couple of useful ways.
Here’s a good use of combining a named mouse touch with a letter key. When you’re in an e-mail message in Thunderbird*, you can click on the Sender’s address to drop down a menu that includes Copy e-mail Address and Add to Address Book.
To enable copying the sender e-mail address or adding it to the address book in a single speech step, name a mouse Touch to click on the sender address:
1. Position the mouse on the Sender’s address using a command like “20 By 11”
2. say “Add Touch” to bring up the Touch dialog box
3. name the touch something like “Sender”
4. say “Enter” to put the touch on your Touch list
5. say “Window Close · Yes” to close the UC List dialog box and save changes
6. If necessary, say “Restart NatSpeak” to restart the speech engine.
Now try the command and some combinations.
With an open email in Thunderbird you can say “Sender Touch” and it will click the Sender address to drop down the menu.
Better yet, you can say “Sender Touch c” (or “Sender Touch Charlie”) to copy the address to your clipboard, or “Sender Touch b” (or “Sender Touch Bravo”) to bring up the New Card dialog box with the address entered into it.
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*Thunderbird is a free, open-source, full-featured e-mail program from Mozilla. It’s included in the UsefulFreeSoftware list on the UC Exchange Wiki (say “UC Exchange”).