Here is some stuff that I saved and used to help me figure out navigating
and editing text in the apple systems. I think this will help. We were
talking about using the iPhone at the time but I thing will still get the
point.
Editing text while Using the notes app
You may want to go into settings -> general ->accessibility and turn on
"speak auto text". This way you should hear the replacement suggestion when
that bubble noise sounds. Enter any word delineator (space, return or
punctuation) to use the suggested word, or continue typing.
Last week Anna D presented a perplexing problem. She attempted to type
"hell" and wanted to avoid the auto text of "he'll". As I understand it,
when the bubble sounds you should be able to set the rotor to "auto" and
find the suggested word via side flicks and dismiss it by double tapping.
In my testing I could not avoid it entering that apostrophe and my only
option was to back up and delete that character.
Ø My understanding is that Apple strives to avoid modifying the user
experience. In the GUI world there is not a cursor so much as an
insertion
pointer. Unlike Windows screen readers, Apple does not modify this
appearance when VoiceOver is active.
So even though Sarah told you to do what you already said you tried, maybe
an example will help. Lets say you discover that you entered "cat" but
meant "cut". You would want to traverse the edit field with the one
finger
up/down flick gestures and set the rotor to characters when you're at or
close to the offending word. As you flick up and down, VoiceOver always
announces the character the insertion pointer just passed over. This
means
that if you flick down twice and hear "c" and "a" and then flick up, you
will again hear "a". In the Windows world where we think of a physical
cursor this seems inconsistent, but makes sense when you consider that
VoiceOver is actually reporting the character just passed over. When your
insertion pointer was between the c and a and you flicked down, VO
announced
"A" and the insertion pointer rested between the a and t. If you press
delete the character to the left would disappear which is "a". If you
instead flick up the insertion pointer moves back between the C and A and
voiceOver again announces "a". Now anything inserted lands between the c
and a, or pressing delete would make the "c" disappear.
Typing on the iPhone
One thing to remember about the way the iPhone cursor works, too, which is
different from the PC (though the same as on the Mac, unless you change
it). When you move, moving to the left puts the cursor to the left of the
last thing announced, while moving to the right puts the cursor to the
right of the thing just announced. So, if you have the word "the" and
you're at the end of the word, flicking up will announce "e", "h", and
"t". So let's say you hit the "e" and want to insert something. The letter
you stick in will go in before the "e". Unless you flick back down, and go
forwards over the "e", then it will go after the e. Hard to explain but it
makes sense afteryou see it.
And, yes, the rotor is a bit tricky at first. you can rotate it too far
and miss settings if you're not careful.
Hugs, AJ
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: pages questions
My answer is below your quoted text.
On Jan 1, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Cathy <[email protected]> wrote:
3. Oh yes, that brings up a third question. when I am inserting text, I
can't figure out how that works either. Sometimes it will insert at the
end
of a word, sometimes after the character I intend for it to insert before
,
sometimes before the character I intend it to insert after. Perhaps you
are
getting the picture that I am a quick typist and often reverse characters
when typing, and if so you are so very right!
answer:
A friend of mine said this to me. In the platform that cannot be named the
curser announced what it just walked over, but in mac the curser announced
what it's about to walk over. There's a setting in the vo utility which
can be accessed with vo f8. so
1. access the utility with vo f8.
2. navigate to verbosity, then press the text tab, and it should be in
that dialogue.
3. You want to change the option to Speak text to the right of the cursor
When moving the cursor so you can have the cursor announce what it just
walked over making the editing experience a lot more friendly.
Hth.
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