April, make sure you are pressing control+shift+Option+down arrow. That’s how you start interacting. One more point. You might want to make sure quick nav is off. Here’s how you can tell. press your left and right arrow keys together. Do this without pressing either control or option. You want to do this until you hear Voice OVer say “quick nav off”. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in!
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:42 PM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg Aikens, > > I don't know. That time I heard it say HTML, and Control+Option+Shift+ > arrow just beeped again. It got stuck up there in the title at one point. > Will this actually read a post to you ? Is it supposed to? > > I have to put it down for the night. Timer to feed the animals and me. > > Thanks, > > April > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 3:06:54 PM UTC-5, Greg Aikens wrote: > Hi April, > Are you interacting with the web page before you try to navigate it? You > need to move to the part that says html view and interact with it using > Control+option+shift+down arrow. Then you should be able to use VO+left and > right arrows to move through the page. Interacting is confusing at first but > not bad once you get used to it. If you need a more in depth explanation of > interacting, let us know. > > Thanks, > Greg > > On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:57 PM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Ray Foret, >> >> All the directions say VO + left or right should work. However, it >> only beeps if you do that. And I don't know why. Even the up and down >> arrow cause it to beep. >> >> Actually, this is my first Mac, and I had to re-label my bumblebee >> keyboard. >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Friday, January 10, 2014 2:51:06 PM UTC-5, Ray Foret jr wrote: >> April, sounds like you need to relax and try this. >> >> IF you press VO+left or right, you can navigate any web page usually just >> fine with voice OVer. I will not nor can I provide step by step >> instructions for every little operation. That’s not the best way to learn >> Voice OVer anyhow. The best way is the way you started: by just doing it. >> So, let me give you the following things. >> >> 1. Do you know what I mean by pressing VO+left or VO+right? What I mean is >> the key combination of control+Option+left, right up or down arrow. So, >> whenever someone here tells you to press say VO+right, for exampel, what >> they will mean is that you should press control+Option+left or right. >> Surely, you know the Apple keyboard enough to know that your option key is >> right next to your control key and on its right. >> >> Pressing VO+space will be the usual way to click on a web page link or >> activate something. In some cases, however, the return key will be used to >> open some web streams. That is a case by case thing you’ll just have to >> play with it. >> >> 2. Keyboard help. To get in to keyboard help, press VO+k. Now, with >> keyboard help on, you can type what ever you wish to type and you will be >> informed what each key or group of keys does and this includes many Voice >> Over commands also. To get out of keyboard help, press escape. >> >> 3. To get help with Voice Over at any time, press VO+h. For a list of all >> Voice OVer commands, Press VO+h twice. >> >> That should help to get you started good. >> >> >> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >> >> On Jan 10, 2014, at 1:43 PM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Please help me. >>> >>> I can design a website with HTML and CSS sheets, working links, and >>> shopping cart, and can't figure out how to make VoiceOver work. >>> >>> I've probably read every online manual I can find. And still, it's a no go. >>> >>> I spent probably two hours on it today. Somehow, it did almost work in >>> Mail. >>> >>> As for the Internet. I tried every key combination listed in all the web >>> manuals I down loaded and printed to no avail. Sure, it would the top line >>> that says " >>> File, Edit," etc... One time, I even got it to read the left pane in >>> Twitter. I still cannot get it to read posts in Twitter, these forums, >>> Google Plus, or Facebook. >>> >>> Can someone please treat this old web designer like someone who has never >>> turned on a computer and tell me the steps to use VoiceOver to read a >>> simple webpage. I figure, if I can learn to use it on Twitter, I can >>> figure the rest out. If I can just figure out how to get it to leap from >>> the menu bar to the web page. >>> >>> Than k you, >>> >>> April Brown >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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