Hi :) Please CC April Brown in on any answers because she is not subscribed to this mailing list. The original question was to the Accessibility Mailing List but hasn't had an answer yet.
Happy New Year all! :) Regards from Tom :) On 31 December 2014 at 18:10, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I am a writer who has been using Libre Office for a few years. I > appreciate it! However, I now have to learn to use VoiceOver on my Mac. > > First: Can anyone share a good guide for using VoiceOver in Libre Office? > > Here is what I have tried, and my results so far: > > > I have a Mac Mini, Yosemite updated to most current. > > The read all command only seems to read what is visible on the screen. > When it works at all. > > Tricks tried: > NumPad is turned on > NumPad 9 > NumPad Zero 5 > NumPad Command 3 > NumPad Control 5 > > Quick Nav on > Quick Nav off > With Rotor on Paragraphs > > With Track Pad turned on > Two Finger Flick Up > Two Finger Flick Left > Two Finger Flick Right > Three Finger Flick Up > Three Finger Flick Down > > Control Option B > Two Finger Flick Down > > None of the above commands seem to anything. > > Also tried Item Chooser and Find.It would find an item. Then, I'd press > enter, or double tap, and VoiceOver would begin reading at the beginning of > the document again. When it reads at all. I'm still missing something. Or a > bunch of somethings. > > And why, when I want it to read a document, email, or whatever, does it > keep wanting to edit text instead of read it? Why does it refuse to read > more than one character at a time regardless of rotor setting? > > What setting is messed up? > > Yes, eventually, I'll need to edit. I need to read it first though. More > than a letter at a time. Or more than a screen at a time. And jumping back > to the top of a document won't work if it's 360 pages! > > Today, I tried opening a new document and just writing. It didn't work > very well. > > Thank you, > > April Brown > > Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind. > > [email protected] > > Website: https://sites.google.com/site/uncoveredmyths/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/UncoveredMyths > Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/116003267969710767555/posts > > Newsletter Signups: http://t.co/Q5kSUlKV2a > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
