Hi, Certain elements you can't review them by character, even if you interact. Not all elements will let you interact with them to read them, or even use VO-W. In the case of Finder, it is possible, but not all elements even if they appear as menu buttons, etc. Menu buttons is one particular element.
If you want to, you can use Clipboard History. It lets you save as many history items as you want and you can then bring up the element in a contextual menu by using shortcuts. So, for instance, if you want to bring up the latest item in the clipboard you can hit CTRL-V. Hitting enter on it will paste it, but you can also read it with VO-W or VO-W-W to have it spelled out. However, you can't interact with menu items. You can, however, insert the ten latest copied items with Command-1 through 0. I use this often because it allows me to have favourites for the clipboard, and also comes in handy when there's information you thought you didn't need that you suddenly find yourself needing to paste. Of course, you have commands for favourites as well. I know it's not a fix, as such, but it may help you out. Here's the Applevis article I posted with more information, as well as the shortcuts available. I think it's a relevant application because it does let you examine the clipboard, since bringing them up in contextual menu items is not the only way to see them. http://www.applevis.com/mac-app-directory/productivity/clipboard-history Regards, Nicolai On Jul 1, 2012, at 2:19 PM, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > I am still not sure that you need to copy to the clipboard to do this. > In general just keep on interacting with the element and you should > eventually get to a stage where you can review the spelling by cursoring > character by character. > Specifically in Safari, you just need to interact with text, To read > characters you will need to turn Quick nav off temporarily by pressing right > and left cursor arrow together. Now pressing right or left arrow will read > character by character just like in Text edit. > Press left and right arrow again to turn quick navb back on. > however in Finder the easiest way to read the characters of a folder or file > name is simply to press return on it. > This will enable you to edit the file name and whilst you will not > necessarily want to do this in this mode you can just cursor along and get > voiceover to read the folder or filename character by character. > Pres return again and the folder and filename will return to normal. > > > David Griffith. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hopewell > Sent: 01 July 2012 12:31 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to examine the clipboard? > > Hello Anne, > Yes I understand how to spell phonetically while reading or typing normal > text. My problem is that I cannot always understand what VO says when > arrowing down a list of folder and file names in Finder or sometimes when > encountering controls in Safari (I cannot recreate this at the moment so am > not sure of the precise circumstances). A possible solution to these > problems which will work in all circumstances is to use VO+Shift+C to copy > the last spoken phrase to the clipboard and then paste that to a textedit > window and then cursor around to hear individual words or characters. It > would then be nice if I did not have to paste the clipboard into a textedit > window in order to explore it. > > FOr file and folder names I can press Enter as if I were going to edit that > name and then cursor over the name to fully understand it. However that does > not work with the difficult web page elements. > > Thanks to David for the tip on the VO setting which will speak characters > phonetically if you cursor over it and wait a bit. 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