Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
I believe that another way to do a forward delete is by adding the function key to the backspace key. That's what I've always done, and I had forgotten all about control D. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:57 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I think I'm missing something. Backspace will *always* do that, there's no easy way of altering that. Right now, if I type the letter T and then backspace, that T is gone and VoiceOver says T along with a beep (the beep only because I have sounds enabled for deleting). What happens when you hit backspace? To be clear, we're talking about the key above the backslash and below F12 and Eject, right? You can do a forward delete, but you have to press ctrl-d, and I doubt that's the keystroke you're using. You can On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or number I just typed? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to
Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
Really? I never knew that. Actually, I feel like I did, but I'd forgotten completely. Thanks for the reminder-that's way easier to hit than ctrl-d. On Aug 2, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that another way to do a forward delete is by adding the function key to the backspace key. That's what I've always done, and I had forgotten all about control D. Sent from my IPhone On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:57 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I think I'm missing something. Backspace will *always* do that, there's no easy way of altering that. Right now, if I type the letter T and then backspace, that T is gone and VoiceOver says T along with a beep (the beep only because I have sounds enabled for deleting). What happens when you hit backspace? To be clear, we're talking about the key above the backslash and below F12 and Eject, right? You can do a forward delete, but you have to press ctrl-d, and I doubt that's the keystroke you're using. You can On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or number I just typed? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
No Alex that was the checkbox I needed. Thanks. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I think I'm missing something. Backspace will *always* do that, there's no easy way of altering that. Right now, if I type the letter T and then backspace, that T is gone and VoiceOver says T along with a beep (the beep only because I have sounds enabled for deleting). What happens when you hit backspace? To be clear, we're talking about the key above the backslash and below F12 and Eject, right? You can do a forward delete, but you have to press ctrl-d, and I doubt that's the keystroke you're using. You can On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or number I just typed? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com
Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or number I just typed? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Please help with backspace issue. Step by step instructions needed
I think I'm missing something. Backspace will *always* do that, there's no easy way of altering that. Right now, if I type the letter T and then backspace, that T is gone and VoiceOver says T along with a beep (the beep only because I have sounds enabled for deleting). What happens when you hit backspace? To be clear, we're talking about the key above the backslash and below F12 and Eject, right? You can do a forward delete, but you have to press ctrl-d, and I doubt that's the keystroke you're using. You can On Aug 1, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Alex If I check this box, when I backspace will it delete the letter or number I just typed? Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Is the issue backspacing, or arrowing? You can't change what the backspace key does in the VO Utility, but you can set the arrow keys to do a couple different things. By default, VO tells you what you've just moved past, which is why it will repeat the same character over and over if you hit left arrow, then right, then left, then right… You keep moving past the same thing, and VO reports exactly that. Once you get it, this system makes more sense, at least to me. You can configure it differently, but I honestly get confused when I try to use Windows screen readers nowadays, since I am more easily lost in the text than I am on the Mac or iOS. If you want things to work how they do in Windows, head to the VO utility with vo-f8. Select the Verbosity item in the categories table, then vo-right to the list of tabs. Vo-space on the 'text' tab, then vo-right or tab until you find the while typing speak popup. Hit vo-space, use the arrows to choose speak text to the right of the cursor, then vo-space to confirm. You may now close the VoiceOver Utility. I hope this does what you want; if not, something else may have been configured on your old Mac that I'm not thinking of. On Aug 1, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi I wrote about this before but I need more help. I want to set vo so that it will backspace over the letter or number that the cursor is just in in front of. I don’t know what checkboxes to check or uncheck in vo utilitiesl bessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net I’ve left in the above Mistakes so you can see what I mean. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com mailto:mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this
