[macvoiceover] Re: Using VO and Zoom together?

  • From: covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 01:35:05 -0500

I think this is probably expected behavior -- the only way I could ever
get VO to do anything sensible after hitting the control key is to do
something with the VO cursor which clears things and then probably zoom
will work correctly.

Kelvin Falconer <tusciafalconer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps check the settings under naviagation in the VO utilities preferences. 
> Not sure which one might help but is her mouse or cursor moving at all ?
> 
> TF
> 
> On 23/12/2014, at 4:07 pm, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a friend who is low vision and uses both VoiceOver and Zoom on her
> iMac running Mavericks
> She is having difficulties on websites. What will happen is a page will load
> and VO will begin to read the page. My friend will hit the CTRL key to
> silence VO and then using Zoom read with her eyes down the page. If she
> wants to move the cursor down the page to continue reading at that point
> with VO, she will click with the mouse at the point where she wants VO to
> begin reading, but instead, VO will jump back to the spot where it had
> previously stopped reading, and continue to read from that point. My friend
> is finding this very frustrating. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this very
> well, but if anyone understands what I am trying to say, is there a way to
> fix this behaviour? What she would like to be able to do is click at some
> point on the page with the mouse and have VO start reading at that point.
> 
> Thanks for any help with this.
> 
> Russell
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