Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS.
If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the "while typing speak" popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose "speak text to the right of the cursor", then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. > On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. > I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number > that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to > check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, > Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. > > mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
