If you like using quick nav, then you could set it up as a activity for Safari. This would mean that when you are not using Safari, quick nav would be turned off and it would save you having to remember to turn quick nav off when not using Safari. On 18 Aug 2011, at 10:56, David Griffith wrote:
> This was indeed the case. I had quick nav keys on. I thought they only > applied to the Web. > I tried to email when I discovered this a couple of hours ago but was > getting mailer error return messages on the Mac. I have therefore switched > to the PC for the time being. > > Regards > > David Griffith > I have come back onto > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2011 09:24 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Moving a Character at a time > > Hello David, > > I suspect you have Quick Nav turned on. If this is the case, you have to use > VO navigation in text documents. I think you'd find it easier to turn Quick > Nav off while editing text. Without quick Nav, the normal ways of doing > things apply. > > Move by character - left and right arrows; > move by word - option-left and right arrows; > move by line - up and down arrows; > move to beginning or end of line - Control-left and right arrows; > move to top or bottom of document - Command-up and down arrows. > > For all the VO navigation commands, press VO-h-h and select the Navigation > menu. Each command is followed by its key strokes. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 18 Aug 2011, at 07:58, David Griffith wrote: > >> This is the first mail I have sent to the Mac list using my Mac so > progress is slowly being made. . However I can navigate characters by using > shift plus right and left cursor arrow. This appears to highlight each > character I am moving. Is there a way of moving a character at a time > without selecting then text in VoiceOver? I need to practise this so a > referral to tutorial or part of the Voiceover help would be good. Not > immediately found though. 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