You know, for as much as I love the trackpad commander, it forces you to interact more than when using the keyboard. But when I first got my Mac, I think that might have been the hardest thing for me to learn. When it is necessary to interact and when not. On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Oh, so that's the problem. Arg. You know, if the Apple genie would grant me > just one wish, it would be that this whole interacting concept would just > disappear. It just isn't natural! *grin* > Donna > On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi donna, >> >> It does read from the point of the cursor. You just need to interact again. >> >> hth >> On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I haven't followed this thread too closely, so first, my apologies if I'm >>> bringing up something that has already been covered. But I have this same >>> problem trying to read to the bottom of text. For example, when reading a >>> long email, if I press VO-A, it will read the whole message, even if I'm >>> already halfway down the message body. I do wish there were some way to >>> make VO start reading where you are, instead of back at the top of the >>> document. Note that the one exception for this seems to be in Safari, >>> where pressing VO-A reads from cursor to end. >>> Cheers, >>> Donna >>> On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Chris Moore wrote: >>> >>>> No, it seems to read past it. For example, if you are replying to an >>>> email and you just want to read up to the point where your cursor is, you >>>> can read line by line or paragraph, or hit VO a or B, but it does not >>>> stop at the cursor, it continues reading past it and starts reading the >>>> previous text from the message you are replying to. >>>> >>>> Of course you can stop VO manually, but it would be nice if it stopped >>>> automatically. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> On 10 Aug 2010, at 03:56, Mary Otten wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Chris, >>>>> I thought vo a was suppose to read from top of page to your cursor. >>>>> >>>>> mary >>>>> >>>>> Mary Otten >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
