Brian,

I can confirm the same issue in the edit field of a new message in mail.app.

Dónal
On 22 Jul 2011, at 03:15, 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.
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