Oh, that's interesting. I would think that the need to interact would be the same with or without the trackpad commander. Guess I'm going to have to find some time to sit down and play around more with it.. I tried it out a while back, but I kept making things happen that I didn't mean to, so I turned it off. Cheers, Donna On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
