[macvoiceover] Re: Standard navigation keys
- From: Bryan Duarte <bryan0731@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:26:02 -0700
They have improved this with every release so I would bet they will continue
their streak!!! the move option works great though. Give it a try...
On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Do we know if this is a known issue that the VoiceOver team at Apple is
> working on?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
> On 2012-03-21, at 8:26 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>>>>
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