What are the differences in the verbosity settings? I've had the Mac a while now but never been able to figure that.
Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2013, at 9:59 AM, "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: > I was on my Mac this afternoon and I had no problem with Safari announcing > text that I had selected no matter what method I used including lines and > words selected from the Web rota. > There appears to be a problem then with some Voiceover settings where it is > not announcing all selected text. This appears however to be an issue not > confined to you as others on this list appear also to have encountered this > problem. > Very peculiar as I cannot reproduce this difficulty at all. > > I am using voiceover with medium verbosity. As far as I am aware I have not > altered anything else in verbosity. > > David Griffith. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of David Griffith > Sent: 01 May 2013 11:01 > To: 'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility' > Subject: RE: Help selecting text on websites > > Ok. > The reason you did not have to use option is probably I think because you > have quick nav turned on. This is fine but it limits the flexibility of the > text you select to words. I sometimes want to select characters using the > arrow keys, and more importantly as I am hearing impaired carefully and > slowly review the text. > Quick nav is great but I think you would get even more single hand > functionality with numpad commander which I use all the time. You need a > keyboard with a numpad keypad for this though. I think it is possible to > transform a laptop keyboard to emulate a numpad keyboard but I think you are > probably better off sticking to Quick nav on laptops. > Re sticky keys announcement have you tried adjusting Voiceover verbosity? I > have found Voiceover far less annoying with its announcements since I > reduced verbosity from high to medium. As far as I can see Voiceover still > announces everything critical but stops making annoying and unnecessary > announcements like new line doing say all read out and so on. It might be > worth a try if you have not adjusted this setting. > > David Griffith > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Catherine Turner > Sent: 01 May 2013 10:14 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Help selecting text on websites > > Hi David, > > Thanks for this. I added lines to the rotor. When I tried Shift down this > selected the line but VO didn't announce anything so I'm not keen on that > method. > > I tried the interact with text, press VO Enter thing and this worked fine > but I found I could select stuff with just the arrow keys and don't have to > press Option and Command with it. > > I'd really like to use theVO Shift C thing because I think that would be the > most efficient way but I have a problem with that at the moment. Because > I'm using Sticky Keys, whenever I press VO Shift C the last phrase VO said > is "sticky key x off". I wonder if I can stop VO announcing the status of > the sticky keys? Their status is indicated by sounds which I'm used to so > would like to stop VO announcing them if possible but I don't know if this > is possible? Any ideas? > > THanks, > Catherine > On 4/30/13, David Griffith <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> Firstly I would, as suggested on this list a couple of weeks ago, >> amend your Voiceover settings in Voiceover Utility to include lines >> under your web rota. >> You will find this under Web and Web rota. Just check the lines >> element in the table of elements to include in the rota. >> This will add the capacity to select lines of text in Safari. >> As far as I recall this is announced correctly by Voiceover but I am >> on my windows laptop at the moment so will have to check later. >> >> An alternative method of selecting words is slightly more convoluted >> but definitely works and is read appropriately. >> 1,. Interact with Text. >> 2. Press VO enter. >> 3. Then select the words with shift option and cursor keys. >> 4. Press VO enter again to end selection. Press Command C to copy. >> 5. Uninteract with Text to return to normal web page reading. >> >> >> Also remember the standby VO Shit C to copy the last phrase spoken to >> the clipboard. This is a rapid and efficient way of copying a >> paragraph of text or other page element. >> >> David Griffith >> >> >> >> . >> >> -----Original Message----- > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. 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