Hi Roger, VoiceOver's default behavior is to read the character you just navigated past, so if you're using your right arrow key to navigate, then the character read out is to the left of the cursor, and if you were using your left arrow key to navigate, this would be the character to the right of the cursor. The same thing applies to navigating by words. If I use Option+Right arrow to move over the phrase "Hi Roger" by pressing the Option key and tapping my Right arrow key, the first tap will give me "Hi" and the second tap will give me "Roger". At that point, my insertion point is just after the final "r" in "Roger". If I now continue to press the Option key and tap the Left arrow key, I'll hear "Roger", and a second tap will produce "Hi". My insertion point is just before the initial letter "H" in "Hi". Tapping the Right arrow key gives me "H", and places my insertion point just after the initial letter "H". If I were to tap the Left arrow key, I'd also hear "H", as my cursor traverses the letter in the opposite direction, moving to the left from just after the letter to just before the letter.
On Mac laptops, the way to perform a "forward delete" of the character to the right of the insertion point is to press Fn+Delete. Also, although most of the same keyboard combinations for moving and editing that you use for text on the Mac will also work using Bluetooth keyboards paired to iOS devices, because the "Fn" key is not enabled for use under iOS, you'd have to forward delete characters by selecting them and then pressing the "Delete" key. Specifically, hold down the shift key and tap your right arrow to select one or more characters, then press the "Delete" key. For example, let's say I wanted to change the phrase: "show this is true" to change it to "how is this true" and my insertion point is before the "s" in "show". I'd press the Shift key to start my selection, then tap the Right arrow key to select the "s". Than I would press the delete key. Of course, you can also continue to select words, lines, and characters while still holding down the Shift key, before pressing the delete key to delete all your selected text. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 7, 2011, at 05:26, Roger Woolgrove wrote: > Hi all, > > I've wondered this as David but he has raised a point, how do I set VO to > read one side of the cursor as presently mine seems to read one then the > another at another time. > Also, is there a key on the macbook to delete character to the right of the > cursor? > > Many thanks > > Roger > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" > <d.griff...@btinternet.com> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:43 PM > Subject: Navigating to the end of word > > >> How is it possible to navigate to the end of a word using either Mac OS or >> Voiceover commands? I know that option right and left arrow will navigate >> word by word but the focus always seems to be at the beginning of a word. >> The problem is that this function ignores spaces punctuation and line brake. >> So for example I have been trying to edit a document in text edit and >> needed to edit the end of transformer. Pressing option right arrow will take >> me to the next word which is actually my name David. However it is a >> period, 3 carriage returns and several spaces beyond the end of the word >> transformer. Pressing option left arrow will jump me back to the beginning t >> of transformer but where I want to be is on the final r of transformer. >> I halve VO set to read character to the right but would not have thought >> that this makes a difference. >> >> >> David Griffith >> d.griff...@btinternet.com >> >> >> David Griffith >> d.griff...@btinternet.com >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
