Hi, Smart Quotes is usually on by default in Mavericks. So, the word "you're" will likely be placing an angled right apostrophe which VO will announce as such. To the sighted person, this sort of thing looks fine, but to the VO user, it sounds odd when listening. You can turn off Smart Quotes for all apps that support it from within the Text tab of the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. Or, you can turn it off for specific apps by going under the Edit menu, Substitutions and unchecking Smart Quotes for the given app that supports it. I usually just leave it on for most apps but have turned it off for TextEdit so that things work properly when pasting stuff into Terminal from TextEdit.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 29, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > You know, that would make sense, except this is happening in words like > you're, it's, there's. It's happening with all the words that I just typed. > Cheers, > Donna > On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Tyler Spivey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It might be smart quotes. >> Googling osx disable smart quotes seems to bring up some guides, if you >> want to turn them off. >> For example, an apostrophe (') should turn into a right quotation mark >> ('), and a normal quotation mark (") should turn into either " or " >> depending on which end of the quotation you type. >> On 7/29/2014 3:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> For some time now I've noticed that when I type an apostrophe, Voiceover is >>> speaking back to me that I typed a single right quotation mark. What's >>> going on here? And what is it actually typing? I can get it to say >>> "apostrophe" if I hit the key twice, then the second press gives me an >>> apostrophe, and then I can go back and delete the first keystroke which is >>> the single quotation, but that's just ludicrous! Has anyone else seen >>> this? Does anyone have a solution? >>> Thanks, >>> Donna >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
