I get the vo-c and vo-w commands, which I didn't know (or had forgotten). 
However, if I interact with a tweet, I can't move past the first word. Is there 
a way I can do this? VO obviously sees the text, because it reads the first 
word fine with vo-w, but I can't get it to move to subsequent words. Is there a 
command I don't know, or do the app makers need to do something? Am I stuck 
with the pasting into an edit field workaround forever? Thanks.
On 26 Jul 2012, at 14:40, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:

> Hit reply before I was done; sorry.  An interesting trick you can do when you 
> cannot, for whatever reason, interact with or highlight a patch of text you 
> want VO to spell, is to use the VO Shift C command to copy the last phrase to 
> the pasteboard, then paste that into a blank TextEdit document.
> 
> For example, suppose you hear a label for a button or check box on a webpage, 
> but cannot interact with it or get VO to go character by character.  Move the 
> VO cursor over the button or box or whatever, press VO Shift C, then open 
> TextEdit and paste the results.  What you'll see is "really long name I can't 
> spell right check box not checked," or something similar.  But you can use 
> the editor to explore what that label is.  A bit time consuming, but better 
> than buying 50 novelty plates when you only want… two.
> 
> 
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