Hi all, I have tried the commands to read text given by Anne on a macbook. Unfortunately they are not working for me. Here's what happens. First, I find the spot I want to start from on a web page. I click three times with the mouse, and all is fine. Next, however, comes the problem. When I try to go to the bottom of the screen, by hitting VO command function right arrow, I just hear HTML content. Clicking with the mouse another time and then doing the speak text command yields nothing. What's going on here? Note: I do not have screen rapping enabled. I am also still using safari 4 despite its quarks.
John On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > > Hey Larry, I actually agree with you here, that at times there's > way more effort going on here than there should be, however, to be > fair, a sighted user can't simply even click in an area of a webpage > and have the page read to them from that point until the end. > > They'd need to manually scroll the page down screen by screen with > the mouse, via the scroll bar, as they read through the text visually. > > So While on the surface this may seem a bit over the top,what we > can do by clicking the mouse at the start and end point, and then > letting the Mac speak, would take a sighted user to continuously > interact with the page as it were, to keep scrolling it. So it's not > all that different in my opinion. > > As I said, I absolutely agree though, that the available > convenience factor in this case would be a great help! <smile> > > Anyway, thanks muchly for your post!… Have an awesome day!… > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Larry Wanger wrote: > > > And, that's just nuts Apple. This is one particular area where JAWS is > far > and away better. Taking all of these steps just to read a full web > page from > one point to another is insane. Apple, are you listening? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Reading large amounts of text on a web page > > > Hello Mike, > >> Yes, you can start from a particular point and read to the end of a >> web page. It's easiest if you have all your cursors tracking one >> another: >> >> . Find the point from which you wish to start (it must not be a >> link); >> . Click 3 times with the physical mouse; >> . Move to end (VO-Shift-End), it must not be a link; >> . Hold down Shift key and click with the physical mouse: >> . Use the Start Speaking Text command. >> >> It's quite quick to do when you get used to it, but it's best to >> have set a shortcut for Start Speaking Text. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne > > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Mike wrote: > >> >> Hi all: >> >> Is there a method of reading large amounts of text on a web page >> using >> VO? >> Right now, I have to use the VO right arrow to read line by line. >> >> TNX: >> Mike >> >>> > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
