Hi,
Not to sound like an imbecile, but how would you do what you talked about? I
have this happen as well and would be interested in disabling the smart quotes.
Thanks,
Gabe
On Jul 29, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Smart Quotes is usually on by default in Mavericks. So, the word "you're"
> will likely be placing an angled right apostrophe which VO will announce as
> such. To the sighted person, this sort of thing looks fine, but to the VO
> user, it sounds odd when listening. You can turn off Smart Quotes for all
> apps that support it from within the Text tab of the Keyboard pane of System
> Preferences. Or, you can turn it off for specific apps by going under the
> Edit menu, Substitutions and unchecking Smart Quotes for the given app that
> supports it. I usually just leave it on for most apps but have turned it off
> for TextEdit so that things work properly when pasting stuff into Terminal
> from TextEdit.
>
> HTH.
>
> Later...
>
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>
> On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> You know, that would make sense, except this is happening in words like
>> you're, it's, there's. It's happening with all the words that I just typed.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>> On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Tyler Spivey <tspi...@pcdesk.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It might be smart quotes.
>>> Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you
>>> want to turn them off.
>>> For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark
>>> ('), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either " or "
>>> depending on which end of the quotation you type.
>>> On 7/29/2014 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> For some time now I've noticed that when I type an apostrophe, Voiceover
>>>> is speaking back to me that I typed a single right quotation mark. What's
>>>> going on here? And what is it actually typing? I can get it to say
>>>> "apostrophe" if I hit the key twice, then the second press gives me an
>>>> apostrophe, and then I can go back and delete the first keystroke which is
>>>> the single quotation, but that's just ludicrous! Has anyone else seen
>>>> this? Does anyone have a solution?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Donna
>>>>
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