On 09/03/2008, at 10:42 AM, Mueller, Matt wrote:
It hasn't all been perfect though. The largest issue I have encountered is with basic word processing. I attempted to get a magnified view of what I was typing while it was read by word. This is something ZoomText does effortlessly. At first I tried magnifying just the voiceover cursor, but it kept the whole line in focus. So the line would start out big, but as it expanded it would reach the edges of the screen and necessarily have to become smaller to fit until, by the end of the line, I couldn't read it. Trying another option, I didn't magnify the VoiceOver focus but used the zoom feature to magnify the whole screen and track the keyboard focus. This kept text readable, but the zoom kept jumping between the insertion point and the mouse pointer. It was a very annoying behavior and it kept moving my text out of view.
Have you tried making the editing window smaller so that having VoiceOver focus the whole line still leaves it at a readable size? It's not something I know about as I don't know VoiceOver but that might do the trick.
Another piece of software that can help significantly for low vision users is AssistiveWare's VisioVoice. I suggest you try it out if you can, it has a great "magnify text under cursor" function which sounds like it would help with your word processing.
Regards, Ricky Full Disclosure: I beta test VisioVoice. But I think it's good anyway. -- Ricky Buchanan * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://notdoneliving.net/ The people of the machine not only reduce everything to mathematics, but they also leave important sums out of the equations. -- DJN
