Hello Bryan, I hadn't tried this in Mail, but you're right, it stops speaking after the grave accent. This is definitely a bug.
Cheers, Anne On 22 Jul 2011, at 04:15, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hello Anne, > > Thank you for your response. I spent some more time trying it out and seem to > have narrowed my issue down to two specific places. The first is within the > body of a new or reply message in Mail.app. Interestingly, the picker works > fine in the address and subject lines of mail.app, just not in the body, at > least not for me. I tried setting the default text format to both RTF and > Text but got the same result. Also, turning spell check off made no > difference. Would you mind giving it a try in Mail.app and sharing your > findings? > > The second place I'm having the problem is in all fields of Outlook Web > Access, which is the interface used by students and staff at my university to > access their Exchange email system. This I will bang on some more as time > allows. > > Meanwhile, I've had good success using this feature in the current versions > of Bento, Pages, TextEdit and even within the Spotlight search field. > > Cheers, > Bryan > > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> Well spotted! I find that I just have to take my time pressing Right Arrow >> and all the accents are spoken. >> >> On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:37, Bryan Jones wrote: >>> >>> 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. > > <--- 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/>
