Yes it will. You may have to turn VO on the first time, but command+F5 should always work to turn it on and off. James A. Dean On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Craig Dunlop wrote: > Thanks that helps! > Now if I can just stop pushing jaws commands I think things will even be > better. > If I set a logon password on my MacBook will vo read the login prompt? > > Thanks > > > > From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Dean > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:08 AM > To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: some issues > > This is happening because, by default, Voiceover announces text that is under > the cursor instead of speaking the letter to the right of the cursor, as > windows does. To change this, press VO+F8 and select "Verbosity" from the > categories table. VO+right until you get to the "text" tab and select it with > VO+Space. Find the pop-up button that says, "when moving the cursor," and > change the selection to "Speak text to the right of the cursor." > > As for using the spellchecker, a couple of things. First, find the > miss-spelled word and press VO+shift+M to bring up a menu that will have a > list of suggested corrections and pick one. There is also a command to open > the spellchecker that Keith mentioned, I know it's something+semi-colon, but > can't remember what the rest of the keys in the combination are. LOL. > > HTH a little anyway, > > James A. Dean > > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Craig Dunlop wrote: > > > On my mac I am having a hard time editing documents ore emails because it > will say the letter twice even when only one exists. > Is there a setting I am missing? > And does anyone have any quick tips for using the spellchecker? > >