Hi nicole, If your moving to the right, the cursor will be to the right of the letter or word spoken. If you are moving to the left, the cursor will be to the left of the word or cursor spoken. This is why it sounds like voiceover is saying a letter twice sometimes. This is how the cursor naturally behaves. Other screenreaders just mask this from the user. You can change the way voiceover announces the cursor by going to vo utilities and selecting the text tab under verbosity. In here, change " "speak text the cursor passes" to, speak text to the right of the cursor. This is like what you would experience using jaws. hth On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Nicole Hutchins wrote: > Hi group, > Can anyone tell me how to get vo to delete the character directly to the left > of my cursor? > Right now, I can't tell where it's deleting from, but when I press the delete > button, it never deletes the right letter. > > Nicole> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >