Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-25 Thread becky sabo
Hi all, I have a question for all of you all. I am doing a internship at a nonprofit for school. I have a to do list that my supervisor sent me through email and I saved it in pages. I want to refers from it and create a new document how would I go back and fourth through the two documents ?

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-25 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Usual key to flip between two documents in most Mac apps is command+` (` is the key right above tab). So if you have multiple windows open in Finder, Safari, Pages or any other decent app you can just keep hitting command+` to cycle through all the open windows. CB On 8/25/14, 1:32 PM, becky

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-24 Thread denise avant
Alex, Thanks very much. Your explaination sounds clear and reasonabl, and I will give it a try. On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Interact with the text before issuing the vo-a command, and you should be fine. What happened was, you did vo-a, and it read the

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Snap. I also have to use Windows at work but I do feel comfortable with the Mac these days although I'll confess that I'm not so familiar with Jaws anymore and feel more at home with Voice Over although I don't know everything about it. Kawal. On 22 Aug 2014, at 23:57, denise avant

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-23 Thread Barry Hadder
Hello Denice. Alex's explanation of you problem is correct, but for continuously reading long documents there is another possible solution. You can create a text to speech audio file with the say command. For example, in terminal you can type something like say -f file.txt -o file.aiff. You

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-23 Thread Matt Dierckens
You can use Send to iTunes as a spoken track this is accomplished by selecting all the audio, VO shift M, and then go to add to iTunes as a spoken track. HTH. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work

Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread denise avant
Hello all, I ran into a slight problem while reading a document with voiceover on the mac. I was reading a document in text edit, and basically used the read all command. I received a telephone call and pressed the control key to stop voiceover. I stopped at about page 5 of the document, but

Re: Reading documents with voiceover on the mac

2014-08-22 Thread Alex Hall
Interact with the text before issuing the vo-a command, and you should be fine. What happened was, you did vo-a, and it read the text but was not interacting with it, so vo-a started reading from VO's focus, which was the entire chunk of text in your document. Had it finished that, it would