No Alex that was the checkbox I needed.
Thanks.
Blessings,
Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk.
mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> On Aug 1, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think I'm missing something. Backspace will *always* do that, there's no
> easy way of altering that. Right now, if I type the letter T and then
> backspace, that T is gone and VoiceOver says "T" along with a beep (the beep
> only because I have sounds enabled for deleting). What happens when you hit
> backspace? To be clear, we're talking about the key above the backslash and
> below F12 and Eject, right? You can do a forward delete, but you have to
> press ctrl-d, and I doubt that's the keystroke you're using.
>
> You can On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or
>> number I just typed?
>>
>> Blessings,
>> Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk.
>>
>> mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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]
>>>> <mailto:[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.
>>>>
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