Removing unwanted widgets

but all I can think of is:

1. right clicking on the widgit to be removed to see if there's a delete or remove option; or,

2. Copy and paste the widgit into your VoiceOver pronunciation dictionary to be read with silence.

Good luck!

Bruce

If you use VO and the arrows to highlight a widget, there is indeed a "remove widget" option, if you use VO-m-m. However, it doesn't seem to do anything, and if you use VO and the arrows, you seem to get multiples of a widget, e.g. I get "batteries" showing up multiple times. Starting at the leftmost thing on my desktop, I get an mp3 file, an app, Weather Gods widget, batteries, Macintosh HD, another drive, batteries twice, another drive, calendar, batteries, weather gods, clock news, stocks, and batteries three more times.

I don't notice this too much because I normally just use the arrows on the desktop, but I have been using the batteries widget, since I found that it was on the desktop. I only noticed all the extra widgets and duplicates today after reading this post and checking to see if there was a remove widget option in the right click menu. So I don't really know what's going or how to fix it.

When focusing on a widget, there should be a "Remove" option in the context menu (accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M) that should work to remove it from the Desktop.

That's what I meant with the right click thingy. They're still there when I do that, but you only see them if you navigate with VO and arrows, at least, that's the only way I see them.

OK, APPARENTLY I LIED. IT DOES WORK. THE REASON I DIDN'T THINK IT DID WAS BECAUSE THERE WERE A TON OF DUPLICATES. SO YOU HAVE TO REMOVE IT, AND THEN WAIT A SECOND, BECAUSE IT PUTS YOU BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DESKTOP. SOMETIMES IF YOU DON'T WAIT IT WILL LOOK LIKE IT'S ON ANOTHER WIDGET, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY ON SOMETHING ELSE. SO AS USUAL, PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

ACTUALLY, I SHOULD BE SPECIFIC. RIGHT NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE THE EXTRA WIDGETS ARE REMOVED, AND ALL I HAVE IS THE BATTERIES WIDGET. I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT WILL STAY AROUND OR NOT. I DID TELL IT TO ADD BATTERIES TO THE DESKTOP. I DON'T KNOW WHERE ALL THE OTHER WIDGETS, LET ALONE ALL OF THE DUPLICATES, CAME FROM.

Let us know.

Unfortunately, for me it’s not that simple, and the context menu — that is, VO + Shift + M — doesn’t work for widgets. In fact, in some parts of the system, the context menu doesn’t work that way at all. The only, best, and fastest solution then is to bring the mouse cursor to the VoiceOver cursor using the shortcut VO + Cmd + F5, and then press the Ctrl + trackpad shortcut. Only then does the context menu appear for me. Even back when I was on the betas of the new system, this was the only method that worked. Simulating a right-click didn’t work at all. Now it works, but for me the more convenient method is still Ctrl + trackpad. That’s the most reliable way for me.
I even made a guide on how to deal with this, because for a few people around me, the context menu with VO + Shift + M also doesn’t work.
Overall, some really strange things are happening for me on this new system. For the first time, I regret installing it so quickly.

This shortcut is like the equivalent of invoking the context menu by pressing the right mouse button. That’s how sighted people usually do it. As for pressing the trackpad once, for us it’s like pressing VO + Shift + Space. That’s how we simulate a mouse click, exactly as sighted people do. However, sometimes simulating a mouse click doesn’t work. The same goes for the context menu — simulating a right-click doesn’t always work.
However, if we have a trackpad, pressing Ctrl and then tapping the trackpad once makes the context menu work. There is also no default shortcut for simulating a right-click to open the context menu; you have to add one. I don’t see the need for that, though, because the Ctrl + single tap on the trackpad shortcut is more reliable and actually quite simple to perform. I hope I haven’t made this too confusing.