Hello Ricardo. I am very much glad you asked this question for, as you so correctly stated, some basics do very often get overlooked. However, in this case, they did not; that is to say, I am interacting with the text.
Allow me to list the gestures I am attempting to use: After setting the TrackPad reading option to Sentence, I: 1. Release the Command key while at the same time stop touching the TrackPad. 2. Move the Insertion Point along with the VoiceOver cursor to the beginning of the document. I have the Insertion point and the VoiceOver cursor set to follow each other. 3. Use a single-finger swipe down on the TrackPad. When I do this, what is read by VoiceOver is the contents of the next line--not an entire sentence. 4. Since this is not what I want, I use a single-finger swipe right on the TrackPad. When I do this, what is read by VoiceOver is the next word--not an entire sentence. This happens when reading emails, working in Pages, or in Text Edit. If you have gotten this to work, please list the steps and gestures you employ. Thank you, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Question About Using The TrackPad when Navigating Text in Text Edit, Pages, etc Hi Mark, Excuse me stating the obvious but, thats often what gets overlooked. lol. Are you interacting with the text? This will often tweek how navigation works I've noticed in text edit. I don't have pages but, figure the same would apply. Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:21 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Colin and thank you for the reply. > > As I stated in my original message, I can get the setting changed to sentence but, afterwards, I cannot seem to navigate by sentence. So, once the setting is set to Sentence, what gesture do you employ to navigate by sentences? > > Mark > On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > >> Hi there! >> Well I can help here! >> It is not clear but I found out by accident! >> What you have to do is keep your finger on the track pad and tap the key up and down to change the setting! >> But the way most people think the instruction means is to hold the key down and tap the track pad and then think it does not work! >> So try the other way to change settings! >> hth Colin >> >> On 28 Jan 2012, at 23:58, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>> This has never worked for me Mark even in Snow leopard. Do not know if its a bug or if I've been doing something wrong. >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 11:38 PM, "M. Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> >>>> I am currently running the latest version of OSX Lion on my MacBook Pro. >>>> >>>> The following is from Braille page 217 of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard >>>> VoiceOver User Guide describing methods for reading text: >>>> >>>> Text: >>>> >>>> "Change how VoiceOver reads text [by word, line, sentence, or >>>> paragraph) Press the Command key while touching a finger on the trackPad." >>>> >>>> Now, when I do this, VoiceOver does switch between the above stated >>>> selections; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to use the >>>> setting once it has been changed. That is to say, after hearing >>>> that sentence is selected, I attempt to navigate, by sentence, by >>>> simply single-finger swiping up, down, left, or right on the >>>> trackPad but it does not navigate by sentence. Further, after >>>> hearing that Sentence is selected, I continue to hold the Command >>>> key down while performing the above mentioned gestures to no avail. >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug? I would be happy to use the >>>> Rotor to set my choice to sentence but sentence is not an option on the Rotor. >>>> >>>> All comments welcomed. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. 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