Hello Max, To be able to use the VO commands in TextEdit or Pages, you have to interact with the text input area. Once you do that, the Read commands work fine.
You can find all the VO commands by pressing VO-H-H. Take some time to go through them and you'll be surprised at what you find. There are commands to read by character, word, line, sentence, and paragraph, as well as from the beginning or from current position. On your MacBook, Page Up is FN-Up Arrow, Page Down is FN-Down Arrow. Home is FN-Left Arrow and End is FN-Right Arrow. If the key combination for any command seems too complicated, you can always define a more convenient keystroke in Keyboard Commander or define a trackpad gesture if you prefer. Cheers, Anne On 30 May 2011, at 17:05, Max wrote: > Hi All > I’ve recently switched to Mac and i’m finding it quite hard to work in > pages or text edit. I’d appreciate any advice on the following: > I’m used to reading paragraph by paragraph in windows. Jaws has the > simple control plus up or down for this. I cannot find something > similar for Mac. I know VO plus P reads the current paragraph, but it > doesn’t allow me to skip forward and back to the previous or next > paragraphs. I believe the page up or page down keys might be used for > this, but i don’t have those on my Macbook. > I’d really appreciate any help. > Thanks > Max > > -- > 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.
