Yikes! Pessimistic much?
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 12, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, forget about my last post and this selecting and copying working > so well. Yet another bug in ML, and yes, I will report it to Apple. > Selecting the text on a web page works fine the first time, but if you > want to select another part of the text from the same,Voiceover will > not regain its focus or insertion point, as it still wants to start > selecting text from the first place you selected the text. The only > work around I found for this was to toggle VO off and on, which of > course than takes you back to the start of the document, than you get > to find the area you want to select and copy again, and VO will allow > you to select the new area. Here is another example of how a blind > person has no shot at being as productive of our sighted peers. Quiet > frustrating as this took me forever to accomplish > > On Aug 12, 11:58 am, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't think your doing anything wrong. I think focus just gets lost >> sometimes. If you haven't, you might try toggling Voiceover on/off. I have >> seen this behavior once or twice. For the most part though, its worked >> pretty well. >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rica...@appletothecore.info >> Twitter:@apple2thecorewww.appletothecore.info >> >> On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hey all, >> >>> Trying to copy some text in safari and have run in to some issues, not >>> sure what I am doing wrong, and it is probably a setting, so wanted to >>> see if anyone knew. It is weird as at first this was working, but it >>> doesn't seem like the cursor is following VO and I have checked my >>> settings in F8 and have toggled them all on and off, but nothing >>> changed. When I go down in to the middle of a paragraph and wanted to >>> select a certain line, the cursor doesn't seem to follow voiceover and >>> seems to be selecting a few lines earlier. Here is what I am doing. I >>> first interact with the text, then read it word by word with VO right >>> arrow. I get to the insertion point where I want to start selecting >>> text, and click Command shift right arrow, but it starts selecting >>> text somewhere else on the page, not sure what I am doing wrong here, >>> or if I have a setting set incorrectly. I have tried this selecting >>> text with Quick Nav on and off, and even tried using the trackpad to >>> select text, but again it was selecting the wrong area. Any help would >>> be greatly appreciated. Thanks >> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> athttp://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.
