[macvoiceover] Re: Voiceover cursor.
- From: Marcy Weinberg <rhymingmom1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 09:58:04 -0400
Hi, Sarah,
What is your setting in voice over utility for verbosity>text "when moving the
cursor"?
Marcy
On May 13, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 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.
>>> E-mail suejinglejungle@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Windows Live Messenger sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Skype suemorgan1006
>>> Mobile 07968825286
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>>
>>
>
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Marcy
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