Hey Alex! Yes you got it! And it is under Verbosity! Hth Colin On 13 Aug 2012, at 17:45, Alex Hall wrote:
> It might be the cursor setting. I think it's in the vo utility under > verbosity, but cannot be sure. Anyway, it is a setting that tells vo > to speak either the item the cursor goes over, which is the default, > or the item past the cursor, which may have been the setting on that > mac you tried. > > On 8/13/12, Rodney Haynie <rodney.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> I was on a Mac computer running Lion on Saturday and when I was typing >> in Text Edit, and I went to move around between the words I wrote, I >> found the navigation was just like I was on a Windows PC. >> >> On a standard setup on OSX Lion and Mountain Lion: >> I can use Option+LeftArrow to move to the previous word. The cursor >> will be in the front of the word. So if I type something at this >> point, the text will appear before the word. >> If I press Option+RightArrow, I will move to the end of the word. So >> typing at this point will add characters at the end of the word. >> >> The same for Voiceover commands... VO LeftArrow would put me at the >> beginning of a word. VO RightArrow would put me at the end of a word. >> >> The Mac I saw on Saturday, did not behave this way. When I pressed >> Option+LeftArrow, I was move to the previous word at the beginning... >> ok that is fine. >> But when I press Option+RightArrow I am moved to the beginning of the >> next word, not the end of the word like I am use to on a Mac. >> >> The same for Voiceover commands... VO RightArrow would put me at the >> beginning of the next word. >> >> I can not find any setting anywhere that would allow this. I assume it >> will be a System Preference of some sort since it is not only Voicover >> commands that this is affecting. >> >> All of the above was while I was in Text Edit. >> >> Please shed some light on this, if you know of the setting. I've been >> Googling and searching Help to no avail. >> >> The one thing I did not try was rebooting the computer or restarting >> Voiceover. >> >> Thanks. >> -Rodney >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > mehg...@gmail.com > > -- > 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.
