Hi Linda and Justin, You can choose whether or not to be informed of spelling errors by VoiceOver, and even how VoiceOver should inform you if you choose to know.
To do this open the VO Utility with VO keys+F8 Navigate to the "Verbosity" category and then to the "Text" tab 2. Navigate to the option "when encountering a misspelled word". 3. You'll be greeted with a pop-up box where you can tell VoiceOver to either; Do Nothing Play at Tone - which a small beep will be heard before the misspelled word. Speak Attributes - VoiceOver will say "misspelled" before every misspelled word Change Pitch - will - will change the pitch of the misspelled word 4. Just press enter on the option you wish to use and close the VO Utility. Hope this helps TC James On 24 Jul 2011, at 16:37, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi Linda, > > I'm experiencing the problem of text not being read while typing, and the > issue of being notified of supposed spelling errors while reading an email. > Thankfully, I'm not having to interact with every page that is loaded. I'll > be emailing Apple about my two issues soon, and I'd suggest that anyone else > dealing with them should do the same. > > Justin > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Linda Mumford wrote: > > I am also using Snow Leopard, and like you, VO is now telling me every time > it thinks there is a misspelled word when I am reading my emails... just > imagine how irritating it is when you're repeatedly being told VO is a > misspelled word on this list! > In addition, I now have 2 other problems on Safari: > 1. When I am in a text edit box like a search box or user name box, there is > no longer any character echo as I type. Just total silence (I know I am > interacting with the box because what I have just typed in silence is read > back to me when I use VO plus the arrow keys, however the individual > characters are not read when I use the arrow keys or the backspace key which > erases this is only happening in Safari- the characters but does not announce > what it's doing. The character echo works fine in pages and mail. > 2. Safari no longer automatically interacts with the html content of any web > pages. I now have to manually interact with the HTML content every time a new > web page is opened/loaded, and this is pretty tedious. Also VO is not playing > any sound or announcing when the new web page after it has loaded-- it's a > guessing game. > > Is this possibly because the latest Safari update is meant for Lion and not > Snow Leopard? Or do I need to change something on my settings? I can probably > live with the misspelled word announcements, but not hearing anything when I > type in a edit box on a web page is very problematic. > Thanks for any help > Linda Mumford > On Jul 24, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Loose Canon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am still on Snow Leopard and hope to upgrade to Lion when it will be >> released on Flash drive next month. We have no iTunes store here, so it is >> not out of option to delay this upgrade. >> >> Here is my problem: I recently updated my version of Safari to 5.1 and I am >> happy with what I am seeing there. However, I noticed that whenever I am >> reading email messages, Voiceover is now telling me of any word that isn't >> spelt correctly. This even happens with names of people. While this >> behaviour is okay while writing messages, it is irritating me when reading >> messages. Any suggestions on how I can stop this? 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