Alex, Thanks very much. Your explaination sounds clear and reasonabl, and I will give it a try.
On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Interact with the text before issuing the vo-a command, and you should be > fine. What happened was, you did vo-a, and it read the text but was not > interacting with it, so vo-a started reading from VO's focus, which was the > entire chunk of text in your document. Had it finished that, it would have > read everything else in the Text Edit window. Interacting would put focus > *inside* the text, instead of inside the window. I hope that makes sense. > > Also, note that control acts as a pause key; pressing it again will make > speech continue where it left off, assuming your computer did not go to sleep > in the meantime. > On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:57 PM, denise avant <denise.av...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I ran into a slight problem while reading a document with voiceover on the >> mac. I was reading a document in text edit, and basically used the read all >> command. I received a telephone call and pressed the control key to stop >> voiceover. I stopped at about page 5 of the document, but when I restarted >> the document, I was back at the beginning. Is there something I need to do? >> Or setting I should change? I had a similar problem with Preview recently. >> Let me confess something here i use Windows at work with a well-known screen >> reader, because that is what is required, but I choose to use the mac at >> home. Obviously I am a more experienced Windows user as I have been using it >> for years. I do not spend as much time on the MAC. So, I am just trying to >> find out if I may have done something wrong or do not have some setting >> right. I am running the latest version of Mavericks with voiceover. >> >> thanks. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
