Interact with the text before issuing the vo-a command, and you should be fine. What happened was, you did vo-a, and it read the text but was not interacting with it, so vo-a started reading from VO's focus, which was the entire chunk of text in your document. Had it finished that, it would have read everything else in the Text Edit window. Interacting would put focus *inside* the text, instead of inside the window. I hope that makes sense.
Also, note that control acts as a pause key; pressing it again will make speech continue where it left off, assuming your computer did not go to sleep in the meantime. On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:57 PM, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I ran into a slight problem while reading a document with voiceover on the > mac. I was reading a document in text edit, and basically used the read all > command. I received a telephone call and pressed the control key to stop > voiceover. I stopped at about page 5 of the document, but when I restarted > the document, I was back at the beginning. Is there something I need to do? > Or setting I should change? I had a similar problem with Preview recently. > Let me confess something here i use Windows at work with a well-known screen > reader, because that is what is required, but I choose to use the mac at > home. Obviously I am a more experienced Windows user as I have been using it > for years. I do not spend as much time on the MAC. So, I am just trying to > find out if I may have done something wrong or do not have some setting > right. I am running the latest version of Mavericks with voiceover. > > thanks. > > > -- > 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. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- 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.
