It is not really confusing, it is that Apple does it correctly. In other words, the way windows screen readers address the location of the cursor in relation to the characters is not the same as a sighted user would view it. I know someone gave a really good explanation and I won't try to explain it since I might confuse the issue. THe point I gather is for a sighted person, the cursor appears between two characters instead of sitting on top of the character. This is the most simple of explanations, but like I said, someone did explain this and did a really good job of it.
On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Brent Harding wrote: > > I thought from what I understood of this is that the cursor goes to > the > right of a character when you right arrow and to the left when left > arrow, > so the repeated character always happens. I agree that the editing > thing > gets confusing on a Macbook because you have to deal with this issue > plus > deleting in the wrong direction from usual. I don't get how if you > had a > forward delete, say you put an extra T on the word Brent, if you > arrow until > you hear the second T and hit forward delete, it should delete the > space > after, arrow to the space to backspace out the T, I think. I'm not > sure why > Apple chose to read this way if indeed the cursor isn't different on > the > Mac. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Jurgensen" <asquare...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:37 AM > Subject: Re: my pod cast on the braille monitor review of voice over > > >> >> Hi, >> >> Slightly edited, I would send it in to the NFB if I were you. The >> only >> error I see is that the cursor works the same on Macs and PCs, it is >> merely how JFW and others relate it to the blind user that is >> different. JFW etc put the vitrual cursor on top of a cursor, but the >> physical cursor is between characters for a sighted user, just like >> on >> the Mac. >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 15-Jun-09, at 4:18 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all. Well, my pod cast on this is not on blind cool tech yet, >>> however, it is on another site for those who are interested. This is >>> my 8th mac pod cast, and my goal is to talk about and demonstrate >>> that >>> many of the tasks this review says are difficult actually are quite >>> simple and work very well. Would love to know what everyone thinks. >>> Here is the direct link to the show. >>> http://serotalk.com/podcasts/MacDemos/MacDemo8.mp3 >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
