Hi Sam. We would expect the same behavior from pressing the spacebar on both Mac and Windows keyboards, at least on the same slide in the same project.
The spacebar should behave the same way as a mouseclick would, and what that mouseclick does would depend on where the focus is on the slide. So if I tabbed through a slide, and the focus was on media, the spacebar would pause and play the media. If it were on a navigation button, it would advance the slide.
Do you have a project in particular where you're seeing the inconsistency that you described? I'm curious about the tab order of those slides. If you can share your project, I'd love to test it out in a few different environments.
Hey Sam. I wanted to get confirmation from our development team on that behavior. When you initially land on a slide, there is no particular focus. If you hit the tab key, you'll get a visual indicator of where the focus is.
Default tab order includes object on the slide from left to right, top to bottom. Custom tab order would highlight the items in the order you identify.
So you shouldn't be seeing anything happen with the spacebar unless you've tabbed or clicked somewhere on the slide first.
But since you indicated that you are, can you share a file where this is happening?
We're a Windows shop. We pay 3rd party testers to test. Two of them use MACs. One of them is telling me that MAC spacebar does a play/pause on other courses independent of focus. This could be a MAC thing or something course-specific. I don't know.
Googling a bit shows mac/spacebar works in iTunes, YouTube. That's the end of my rope.
Does anyone else have knowledge of MAC spacebar behavior in courses?
Gotcha. I have a MacBook Pro, and I can say that in the courses I tested with Chrome and Safari, the spacebar did nothing when I initially landed on the slide. If there is media in the slide, I have to actually tab to the media to get the spacebar to pause/resume the media.
I'm happy to work through it with you or your tester. I'd be interested to know where the course is hosted, what browser is being used to view it, and what content is on the slide.
Maybe we'll also get some input from other Mac users in the community!
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Hi Sam. We would expect the same behavior from pressing the spacebar on both Mac and Windows keyboards, at least on the same slide in the same project.
The spacebar should behave the same way as a mouseclick would, and what that mouseclick does would depend on where the focus is on the slide. So if I tabbed through a slide, and the focus was on media, the spacebar would pause and play the media. If it were on a navigation button, it would advance the slide.
Do you have a project in particular where you're seeing the inconsistency that you described? I'm curious about the tab order of those slides. If you can share your project, I'd love to test it out in a few different environments.
Is there a default where focus lies when a slide is initially rendered?
Sam
Hey Sam. I wanted to get confirmation from our development team on that behavior. When you initially land on a slide, there is no particular focus. If you hit the tab key, you'll get a visual indicator of where the focus is.
Default tab order includes object on the slide from left to right, top to bottom. Custom tab order would highlight the items in the order you identify.
So you shouldn't be seeing anything happen with the spacebar unless you've tabbed or clicked somewhere on the slide first.
But since you indicated that you are, can you share a file where this is happening?
We're a Windows shop. We pay 3rd party testers to test. Two of them use MACs. One of them is telling me that MAC spacebar does a play/pause on other courses independent of focus. This could be a MAC thing or something course-specific. I don't know.
Googling a bit shows mac/spacebar works in iTunes, YouTube. That's the end of my rope.
Does anyone else have knowledge of MAC spacebar behavior in courses?
Sam
Gotcha. I have a MacBook Pro, and I can say that in the courses I tested with Chrome and Safari, the spacebar did nothing when I initially landed on the slide. If there is media in the slide, I have to actually tab to the media to get the spacebar to pause/resume the media.
I'm happy to work through it with you or your tester. I'd be interested to know where the course is hosted, what browser is being used to view it, and what content is on the slide.
Maybe we'll also get some input from other Mac users in the community!
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