Hello, This has nothing to do with trackpad gestures per say. If you want to read all with VO without your keyboard, just enable the trackpad commanders and do a two fingers flick down on the text area.
Cheers, -- Emrah “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” Albert Einstein On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Please clarify for me what you did as it's never worked for me. This means > you just use the I phone gestures on the Mac and you do not need the key > board to get voice over to read all with vo A. > > I am using Lion and turned anything to do with launch pad off. > > Kawal. > > On 30 Jan 2012, at 03:49 PM, Emrah <li...@kavun.ch> wrote: > >> Just tried and it works here. >> Basically, once you change the setting, it affects what is read to you when >> you move your finger on the trackpad. >> The line mode will read a line at a time, the word mode will read a word at >> a time and so forth. >> >> I cannot find any use to this feature yet... >> >> Emrah >> -- >> Emrah >> >> “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” >> Albert Einstein >> >> On Jan 30, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark! >>> Well I can also say that after changing the setting nothing happens! >>> Sorry I thought you were having problems changing the settings! >>> And yes Ricardo if you read this :] I did interact! >>> So I suppose yet another message to Accessibility! >>> All the best! >>> Colin >>> >>> On 30 Jan 2012, at 07:55, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mark, >>>> >>>> Excuse me stating the obvious but, thats often what gets overlooked. lol. >>>> Are you interacting with the text? This will often tweek how navigation >>>> works I've noticed in text edit. I don't have pages but, figure the same >>>> would apply. >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> rica...@appletothecore.info >>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>>> www.appletothecore.info >>>> >>>> On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:21 AM, M. Taylor wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Colin and thank you for the reply. >>>>> >>>>> As I stated in my original message, I can get the setting changed to >>>>> sentence but, afterwards, I cannot seem to navigate by sentence. So, >>>>> once the setting is set to Sentence, what gesture do you employ to >>>>> navigate by sentences? >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there! >>>>>> Well I can help here! >>>>>> It is not clear but I found out by accident! >>>>>> What you have to do is keep your finger on the track pad and tap the key >>>>>> up and down to change the setting! >>>>>> But the way most people think the instruction means is to hold the key >>>>>> down and tap the track pad and then think it does not work! >>>>>> So try the other way to change settings! >>>>>> hth Colin >>>>>> >>>>>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 23:58, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> This has never worked for me Mark even in Snow leopard. Do not know if >>>>>>> its a bug or if I've been doing something wrong. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Kawal. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 11:38 PM, "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello Everyone, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am currently running the latest version of OSX Lion on my MacBook >>>>>>>> Pro. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The following is from Braille page 217 of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard >>>>>>>> VoiceOver >>>>>>>> User Guide describing methods for reading text: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Text: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Change how VoiceOver reads text [by word, line, sentence, or >>>>>>>> paragraph) >>>>>>>> Press the Command key while touching a finger on the trackPad." >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Now, when I do this, VoiceOver does switch between the above stated >>>>>>>> selections; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to use the >>>>>>>> setting once >>>>>>>> it has been changed. That is to say, after hearing that sentence is >>>>>>>> selected, I attempt to navigate, by sentence, by simply single-finger >>>>>>>> swiping up, down, left, or right on the trackPad but it does not >>>>>>>> navigate by >>>>>>>> sentence. Further, after hearing that Sentence is selected, I >>>>>>>> continue to >>>>>>>> hold the Command key down while performing the above mentioned >>>>>>>> gestures to >>>>>>>> no avail. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug? I would be happy to use the >>>>>>>> Rotor to >>>>>>>> set my choice to sentence but sentence is not an option on the Rotor. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> All comments welcomed. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mark >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> > > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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