[macvoiceover] Re: Voice Over not reading text

I have this kind of problem a *lot* when working on code in xtools. I haven't a clue what causes it other than there always seems to be some brackets or braces involved when it misbehaves, so I'm guessing this is how apple sends codes to control vo, but I have no proof, and I don't know what makes it begin talking again, but sometimes it's several hundred lines of code that remains unspoken. More often than not though, it's only 10-50 lines that won't talk, so while this isn't news, I can't help more than to tell you that it's been happening to me since I first got my mac, and repeated complaints to apple mailing lists have received no results. Perhaps I'll report it as a bug, at least then there's a record of it somewhere. 

On Jul 23, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Greg Williams wrote:


Hi,
I have had several instances of VO not reading blocks of text in pdfs--either with the VO+a for read all or VO+down for next line-- although it will read character by character. Does anyone have an explanation as to why this is or a method for getting around it? I have also had similar issues with text edit and Itext express. I have a pdf book which I have converted to text, and for the most part, it has worked well. However, I have found a passage which in both IText and textedit will only read character by character. I have pasted the text below (and it reads fine in mail seemingly). If you copy it into a text editor, the first and last lines will read fine, but the middle lines will not. I have converted it to ascii text and anything else I can think of, but no success. Any ideas? Thanks. 

Start quote:
puts result #=> [["TX", 12345], ["NC", 3456], ...]
This code returns an ordered hash. You index it using the grouping element ("TX", "NC", ... in our example). You can also iterate over the entries in order using each. The value of each entry is the value of the aggregation function. The :order and :limit parameters come into their own when using groups. For example, the following returns the three states with the highest orders, 
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Greg



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