A couple of weeks ago, I posted my problem with the mac email editor since
upgrading to High Sierra. I was asked to give an example so others could try
and duplicate what is happening. Then I got one of those bad colds going
around and I felt pretty puny, to say, the least until now. So allow me to
give a simple example. First, if I write an email and don’t make any mistakes,
which need correction, it works fine. It happens when I try to reposition the
voice over cursor on a letter to change. Recently, I started writing an email
and wrote the following:
I was watching TV…
Based upon what I said next in the sentence, I needed to erase the i n g of
watching. I tried backspacing over the three letters. They erased. Then I
typed the two letter e d in their place. Reading the word watched sounded fine
but reading the sentence, I could find no correction made; it was still
watching and not watched. I tried Quick Nav off and on and it remained the
same. I am assuming the voice over cursor and the mac cursor are not
synchronizing.
Since my spinal neck surgery last October 12th, my hands have been slowing
rebuilding in strength. They won’t ever get back to 100 percent but they are
probably 80 or 85 percent of normal now. I often, for a few weeks during
recovery, when I tried to type, due to the weakness in my hands, I would press
too hard and the key would bounce and I would get a double letter. As I said,
strength has slowly but surely been returning to my hands and I don’t seem to
double letters so much any longer. My Mac DAS keyboard is much easier to type
on than my older DAS keyboards, so that helps. I used to run about 70 to 75
WPM typing and when I was a teenager, I could type 100 Words per minute on an
old office IBM manual typewriter at the school for the blind. Now 40 WPM is
about my limit after 6 spinal surgeries but back to another example.
I was typing, a few weeks ago, an email on my mac and when I typed the word
was, I discovered, when proofreading, I bounced the s key and it now was wass
and voice over pronounced it funny so I checked the spelling. Sure enough, I
had typed wass. So, again, I backspaced over it but upon reading it, it had
not changed. Likewise, I used the del key but that did not work either. I was
hoping this recent update to High Sierra would have fixed my email editor but
it is the same. I have been typing my emails using textedit on the mac,
copying it over to my email message, and pasting the whole text into the
window. Textedit works just like it always does with none of the problems the
email editor has. So, does anyone have any ideas of what I could check. I
don’t root around in the menus all that often and I discovered this problem
first thing after installing High Sierra when it first was made available.
Phil.
phil.scovell@xxxxxxxxxx
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