Thanks, Ricardo. I think I'll try it that way, just to see which works best for me. :) Take care, Nicole On Apr 1, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi nicole, > > If your moving to the right, the cursor will be to the right of the letter or > word spoken. If you are moving to the left, the cursor will be to the left > of the word or cursor spoken. This is why it sounds like voiceover is saying > a letter twice sometimes. This is how the cursor naturally behaves. Other > screenreaders just mask this from the user. You can change the way voiceover > announces the cursor by going to vo utilities and selecting the text tab > under verbosity. In here, change " "speak text the cursor passes" to, speak > text to the right of the cursor. This is like what you would experience > using jaws. > > hth > On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Nicole Hutchins wrote: > >> Hi group, >> Can anyone tell me how to get vo to delete the character directly to the >> left of my cursor? >> Right now, I can't tell where it's deleting from, but when I press the >> delete button, it never deletes the right letter. >> >> Nicole> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >