Oops, I forgot to answer the actual question :).
The say all keystroke is ctrl+option+a. This works everywhere except
on web pages, due to Safari's structure it's not possible to do say
all on a web page and keep your place--this is something I really
hope version 10.6 will fix. On a web page it's either all or nothing
with say all. In all other instances, however, when you stop say all
with the control key you will be placed on the line you've stopped
on. This also acts as a pause, if you don't do anything else with VO
and simply press ctrl again it will resume without you having to
press say all again. Otherwise, you can simply switch back to the
window and press VO+a to resume.
One important thing to beware of is that this keystroke acts
differently depending on whether or not you are interacting with an
item. Interact with the item and say all will act as I described.
If, however, you use it when you are not interacting with an item it
will always read from the top, regardless of where you are placed.
So, to resume, make sure you are interacting with the text or item
before you press say all again, otherwise you will go back to the top.
Another feature you may be interested inn is VO's hotspots. They're
described in the Voiceover documentation, but not very thoroughly.
You can use these to save your place as well. Their main drawback,
however, is that they're not permanent--if you restart VO the
hotspots are gone. Hopefully Apple will provide a way to save these
in the next release.
On Dec 11, 2008, at 09:42, Chris Hofstader wrote:
Hi David,
I also use the item chooser, the list of links and the VO approach
to quick keys but still find myself "lost" in portions of a page or
unable to figure out how to get to places that I know are probably
there but am uncertain of how it may be labeled. The total
flattening of the virtual buffer in the other screen readers causes
a lot of inefficiency resulting from turning everything into a
laundry list of objects. VO, though, seems to build a box of boxes
(which seems to work great for applications and, if they move in
the direction of an r-tree sorting algorithm with some intelligence
added, they may well be able to take screen reader UI well into
this century) I find I have trouble finding the right "box" on many
web pages.
This is probably due to ignorance but I cannot seem to find a way
to do a SayAll in Html or PDF with VO. I get lots of long,
scholarly stuff in these formats and I just want to hit a single
keystroke and let it rip. I also want a single key stop speech but
place me where I stopped as often my reason for stopping is so I
can get the spelling of a word or person's name. I then want to
restart the SayAll from the same point and continue until I feel
like stopping again. If this is possible with VO, I haven't found
out how in a pretty lot of reading. Again, this may be a
vocabulary problem or that I'm brain damaged from a decade of JAWS
on the brain.
Lastly, I can't quite figure out the Find (Command+F) in Safari
with VO. Is there an analogue to the virtual searches in the
Windows screen access tools?
Happy Hacking,
cdh
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