[macvoiceover] Re: Standard navigation keys
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:26:04 -0400
Yup.
It sounds like a voiceover focus issue to me. Page up/down are kinda hit or
miss with VO at times. If you can get a sighted person to view the screen when
you are using page up/down, there is a good chance they will actually see the
page move, although Voiceover doesn't register the change.
Ricardo Walker
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On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Bryan Duarte <bryan0731@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ian,
>
> I would rule out a setting issue in this case especially since it does work
> but does not some times. I would try two things.
> 1 turn voiceover off then on again to refresh it.
> 2 switch windows briefly and make sure the edit field is in focus.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4S!
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> I was in Text Edit when the page up and down commands stopped working. I was
>> simultaneously working in Pages, and it worked fine there. Then it started
>> working in some documents in Text edit and not in others. That's why I
>> wondered about a setting issue.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 2012-03-21, at 5:35 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
>>
>>> Ian we all go through this. The page up and page down commands are set to
>>> work in apps like word processors i.e Pages and Text Editor. For Safari
>>> there are other methods of navigation. If in something like iTunes
>>> scrolling through somgs try different things like first character
>>> navigation and hit or miss with paging up or down.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone 4S!
>>>
>>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh wise list, please enlighten me, how come sometimes my standard
>>>> navigation keys like page up and page down work, and sometimes they just
>>>> go bing without oving anything? Likewise, my VoiceOver navigation
>>>> sometimes moves things around, say in Text Edit, and sometimes just goes
>>>> bing. I try interacting and not interacting.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, just to be clear, on my MacBook Air I press FN command option up
>>>> arrow, which keyboard helper tells me is to move the VoiceOver curosr up
>>>> one page, but it goes bing and nothing happens. Sometimes it actually does
>>>> it, and I can't tell the difference. All my cursor tracking it set to
>>>> track each other.
>>>>
>>>> Ian>
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