Hello Bryan, Well spotted! I find that I just have to take my time pressing Right Arrow and all the accents are spoken.
Cheers, Anne On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:37, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hi All, > > When typing in Lion you can hold down a letter for just a second or two and > it will pop up a list of alternate versions of that letter, such as the > various accented characters. However, I can only seem to make VO read either > the first or last character in the popup list. I've tried all the methods I > can think of to navigate the list: Interact, VO+Shift+J, VO left, right, up, > down and inside-out, but none of them are doing the trick. I know other > letters are there. If I right arrow a different number of times before > pressing Return, I get a different character with each different number of > arrow presses. > > For example, my Mac is set to US English and I'm typing on a US English > keyboard and when I press and hold the letter "A" for a second it will > silently popup a list of alternate versions of the letter "A" and if I press > right arrow once VO will announce "à" (a grave). If I continue to arrow right > I will hear nothing more, but if I press Return after my second right arrow > it will insert "á" (A acute). > > Has anybody had success with this feature? I've recently learned the other > methods of inserting characters -- with help from Anne R and Esther -- but I > was thinking this would be a pretty nice addition to the input methods. > > Any thoughts much appreciated, > Cheers, > Bryan > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
