[macvoiceover] Re: Voiceover cursor.
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 21:40:27 -0700
yeah what I did was have the voice over curser say wwat was inftont of
the keyboard curser not what it does now.
On May 12, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Sue Morgan wrote:
> I did have the quick nav keys turned on so I've turned them off now and i can
> read character by character again in mail which is great.
>
> I'm having difficulty editing text in a miss spelled word. Is there an easy
> way to get around this?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dean Wilcox
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:30 AM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Voiceover cursor.
>
> I think the left and right cursor keys are moving word by word because you
> have quick nav turned on.
>
> On 10 May 2010, at 14:47, David Poehlman wrote:
>
>> Left and right arrow by themselves read by character and there is no way to
>> change this.
>>
>> vo left and right arrow read by word and there is no way to change this. to
>> read by character with the vo cursor, use shift-vo-left/right arrow.
>>
>> To hide thecaption pannel which is what shows the voiceover cursor messages,
>> go to vo utility, choose "visuals and you'll find several tabs, one of which
>> is "caption panel"
>> set it to the lowest settings for everything but transparency and 100
>> percent for that. You can also turn off all the other visuals in those tabs.
>>
>> if you want to just turn visuals off temporarily, press vo-11.
>>
>> To set cursors, go to vo utility, and choose navigation, tab through there
>> and uncheck checkboxes to turn off an action and check them to turn on
>> actions. The exception is mouse cursor, it has three positions which are
>> "follows vo cursor",
>> "ignores vo cursor" and "moves voiceover cursor". "ignores voiceover cursor
>> is selected by default and it should stay that way to prevent issues in the
>> interface.
>> On May 10, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Sue Morgan wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I've been playing around with the VoiceOver settings, and when in Mail for
>> example, using the left and right arrow keys is reading by word instead of
>> letter in a new message. Any idea if there's a default setting for
>> VoiceOver as I'm not sure what I changed to make that happen.
>>
>> I'm also wondering if there's a way of getting rid of the VoiceOver commands
>> on the screen as I don't need a sighted person to see them.
>>
>> I notice also that the VoiceOver cursor follows the mouse cursor and vice
>> versa. Should I leave them checked?
>>
>> Sorry to ask so many questions. I currently use Windows with Jaws but my
>> Parents have a Mac and it would be good for me to get around there machine
>> with VoiceOver when I'm at their house.
>>
>> Sue.
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