[macvoiceover] Re: Edit fields was Re: Learning the keyboard.
- From: "Neal Ewers" <neal.ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:16:22 -0500
Hi, you're right with respect to the Mac, but not with respect to Windows.
In Windows, if you arrow to a character and press delete, the character you
last heard when arrowing will be deleted.
Neal
-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:52 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Edit fields was Re: Learning the keyboard.
David, you've actually got this reversed. <smile> The cursor is
announcing the character just in front of it; not the one you've just left.
I.E. in the word 'is' if you use your right arrow and read the letter 'i'
the cursor is now positioned right between the 'i' and the 's' and is now
focused on the letter 's.'
So if you were to do a delete, you'd delete the letter 's.' Does this
make sense?
If you then press your left arrow once, and hear the letter 'i'
announced, your cursor is now just before the letter 'i,' having moved back
one character. So now, the letter 'i' is the letter that your cursor is
focused on.
lol! believe it or not, my roomie, who is a windows user just confirmed
this for me in MS Word, so it's quite similar.
My apologies if my previous explanation was flawed. <smile>
YOu can think of it this way. The character to the right of the cursor,
is always the one that VO will read.
HOpe this makes sense and again, have a great night!.
Smiles,
cara :)
On Apr 22, 2008, at 3:41 PM, David Truong wrote:
> That might be so but it isn't helpful though. How does one know what
> character he/she is on? I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just
> trying to get a fix cause as I say, in reality when I move my left or
> right arrow keys, the character I have just left is being repeated.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 8:35 AM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Edit fields was Re: Learning the keyboard.
>
> this is fixed behaviour since the cursor is never on a character but
> between
>
> characters when it is at rest, changing direction will repeat the
> character on the way back. Note, it is helpful in that it is a more
> precise way of measuring your position with respect to a character.
> This is not voice over
>
> behavior but voiceover reflecting the behavior of the user interface.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:23 PM
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Edit fields was Re: Learning the keyboard.
>
>
> HI,
>
> Talking about edit fields, how do you set voiceover up so it doesn't
> repeat the same character you have just left? For example, I will be
> moving across a document in a text editor under leopard with my right
> and left arrow keys,
> voiceover will read d a v I d as I am moving the right arrow key.
> That's
> fine but when I move the left arrow back, it will read d even though
> really I am on the I and when I move the right arrow to land on d, it
> will read i.
> It does this through a line of text so after a while you kind've loose
> where you are. This was especially annoying when I had to enter
> serial numbers for my audio hijack pro and recently VmWare Fusion.
> Please don't tell me that I have to gain more experience with the Mac
> and it is something I will learn to get use to smile. There must be a
> fix.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help on the above,
>
> David Truong
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 7:12 AM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
>
> Hi
> Actually, arrows move you around in a wordprocessor just fine, along
> with lists, and just about anywhere else you could use them in
> windows. What might be happening to you is that the arrow keys you're
> pressing simply aren't moving you anywhere, either because you're not
> in a place you can use them or because there's no items for them to
> move you to. An example of this would be on the desktop, if you don't
> have any other drives plugged in or CDs in the drive, there's only one
> icon there for the hard drive. Pressing arrow keys there with only one
> icon present will give you no output, since you haven't moved
> anywhere.
> Most of what you're used to will work (tab, arrows, etc) though they
> don't always work the way you'd expect from a Windows perspective.
> hth
>
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Sara wrote:
>
>> I don't think I've ever used the keyboard learn mode with Jaws or
>> Window-Eyes.
>> I think the only reason I'd use it with a mac is because I can't seem
>> to just press the arrow keys to navigate around. Somebody please
>> correct me if I am understanding this wrong, but from what I have
>> read so far, arrow keys get a blind person nowhere. How do people
>> edit text in a word processor? Do you need to use control option with
>> all arrow keys all the time? I know you can lock them and that would
>> help but just want to clarify. What about with the numpad? Can those
>> keys be used instead of control option arrows to move around and have
>> text read? I think I am missing something. It's probably a lot easier
>> than it sounds. smile Sara
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Truong"
>> <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>>>
>> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:50 PM
>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
>>
>>
>>> Hi Sara,
>>>
>>> Trust me, it was the first command I drummed into my head. You got
>>> to love keyboard learn mode on any screen reader. It is a godsend.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sara
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 4:31 AM
>>> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
>>>
>>> Thanks people! Sounds like a command I'll be using a lot tomorrow.
>>> lol
>>> Sara
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman"
> <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:23 PM
>>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Learning the keyboard.
>>>
>>>
>>>> vo keys-k turns on keyboard help and what's really cool about it is
>>>> that it even tells you what all the keys do, not just vo keys.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Reedy" <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:20 PM
>>>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Learning the keyboard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Learning the Keyboard can be done with out interfearing with your
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> Pressing VO keys-k will cause Voiceover to speak the name of each
>>>> key and if you press a combination of keys, Voiceover will tell you
>>>> what that combination of keys will do.
>>>>
>>>> Press escape to stop this function.
>>>>
>>>> Keith Reedy
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