That's interesting about extra functionality. However, my complaint has been that if you happen to be arrowing through a data detecter field letter by letter or even word, it keeps saying "data detecter" for every keystroke. that is what I would wanna be rid of. I think I like the idea of a small beep or tick like you get with mis-spellings when reading by line.
On Apr 28, 2012, at 2:44 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > And may i add to this that if you click or context menu click on a data > detector that contains an email address, for example, it looks like Mail > tries to gather as much relevant info as possible, such as phone number, > address and so on so that you easily can make a new contact. > As the case so often is with Apples products, i really love this feature, > which is why i wouldn't want to get rid of it or make voiceover stop saying > "data detector". I think it's good to know the field is there, although > having said that, i wish that VO could make an exception when reading > continuously so it doesn't stop to say "misspelled" or "data detector", > because it interrupts the flow of the text. > /Krister > > 28 apr 2012 kl. 04:57 skrev Jonathan C. Cohn: > >> Data detechors in mail indicate a field with some additional functionality. >> It might just be a link, or an address or a date. >> >> If you click or contextually click on the item you might find choices like: >> Open link behind mail. >> Create address book entry >> Create a ical event. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan C. Cohn >> jonc...@cox.net >> >> >> >> On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Jenny Keller wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Since the subject came up. What is data detector and what is its purpose? >>> What can you do with it and what makes it so great? >>> >>> Jenny >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > 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.