[macvoiceover] Tip for Snow Leopard: When Moving the Cursor
- From: Blake Sinnett <frequency660@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <macvisionaries@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:04:47 -0500
Hello all,
For you ex-Windows users, Snow leopard has a feature that just might make your
lives a little easier.
If you're used to editing a document in Windows, you'll be used to the screen
readers for that platform speaking everything to the right of the insertion
point. VoiceOver's default behavior, however, speaks characters the insertion
point passes. If you were at the top of a document and the first word was
VoiceOver, for example, you would hear the capital V, because the insertion
point just passed that character. You would hear the capital V again if you
pressed left arrow, because the insertion point would pass the letter going in
the opposite direction.
In Snow Leopard, there is now a setting that will speak characters to the right
of the insertion point.
Open the VoiceOver Utility by pressing VO-F8.
When you land in the categories table, press V to get to the verbosity category.
VO-right arrow twice to the text tab, and VO-space to select it.
VO-right arrow until you hear "When Moving the Cursor."
VO-right arrow one more time. You should hear "Speak text the cursor passes."
Press VO-space to open the pop-up button.
VO-down arrow to select speak text to the right of the cursor.
Press VO-Space to select the option and close the pop-up menu.
Press command-Q to quit the VoiceOver Utility.
When you're in a document and move by character, you should now have the more
familiar Windows screen reader behavior. This might not be to everybody's
taste, but I thought it might be useful for some.
Thanks,
Blake
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