Hello Denice. Alex's explanation of you problem is correct, but for continuously reading long documents there is another possible solution. You can create a text to speech audio file with the say command. For example, in terminal you can type something like say -f file.txt -o file.aiff. You can get more explanation of how to use the say command by typing man say. There may be a way to do this in the GUI, but I don't know what it is.
On Aug 22, 2014, at 5:57 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. Barry Hadder [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.
