Thank you very much for these tips Anne. I'll play around and see how it goes.
Anne Robertson wrote: > 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.
