Command f5, it is a toggle command. It will turn it on and off. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 5, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On the mini, especially in the web, I will try to move through links and > intermittently VO will go crazy and skip around as if sliding down the page. > I tried to turn off VO and restart it hoping it would work. However, I am > unable to turn it off. I thought the command was VO F2 F2, but this doesn't > work. How do I stop and restart VO? I know you can turn it off with I think > VO f10, but does that only mute like the three-finger double tap? > > I would also like to know how to find windows open as my machine is telling > me there are windows open but can't find them. They are not the ones on the > dock. Any help you can give deeply appreciated. The skipping is annoying. > > > reggie and Allegra > > On May 5, 2014, at 7:35 AM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any way to work around this? What if the stuff in triple brackets is > necessary and you want VO to speak it? If these are related strictly to > speech, what about Braille displays? does that “unspoken text” get shown on > the display or is it not shown there either? > >> On May 2, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have also seen this for years. >> >> this is not quite a bug in the sense that it is the structure for a speech >> command which you can see in action by doing the following. >> >> I will not put these commands in this text as I'd rather not make people's >> speech go wonky! lol! :) >> >> 1 open a text file with TextEdit >> >> 2 add the command rate90 at the top of the file, surrounded by three >> brackets as in: [[[ command ]]] >> >> 3 Type some text below the command you just placed in the top of the file as >> in: This is just a test >> >> Now when you do a say all with VO a the test text should be spoken quite >> slowly. >> >> The number you type for the rate is the rate of speech in words per minute. >> >> So when VO encounters the triple brackets in text it expects a speech >> command, but does not speak what is in those brackets. >> >> Hope this helps explain this a bit. >> >> Have a great day All! >> >> Cara :) >> --- >> iOS design and development - LookTel.com >> --- >> View my Online Portfolio at: >> >> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >> >> Follow me on Twitter! >> >> https://twitter.com/ModelCara >> >> On May 2, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> You know what's weird? The word "secret" was read in say-all and >> line-by-line reading. When I find code snippets that won't read, they don't >> appear to work anywhere, not just in Mail or Xcode, but I haven't figured >> out the rules that cause this to happen. Still, I'm glad it isn't just me. >> Thanks. >>> On May 2, 2014, at 9:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> I even tried it in another editor (SubEtha Edit) and it did the same thing. >>> So VO is getting confused consistently. Apparently it's the triple-bracket >>> that makes VO silent. The following is a simpler example that also fails: >>> >>> This is some [[[secret]]] text. >>> >>> I have the word "secret" in triple brackets and VO says nothing when I move >>> focus there. Text Edit does the same thing. So this appears to be a pretty >>> low-level bug. >>> >>> CB >>> >>>> On 5/2/14, 9:37 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>> That's weird, but it makes sense that VO is confused. I can verify it. I >>>> can read character by character and it shows up, though. >>>> >>>> Teresa >>>> >>>> “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. >>>> Feynman >>>> >>>>> On May 2, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> I've noticed something really odd lately, and I'd like to see if anyone >>>>> can confirm it. Below is a line of code. You don't need to know >>>>> Objective-C or anything; the oddity is that VO is skipping text. >>>>> Specifically, the bit that says [[self solitaireModel] >>>>> isDiscardStackRole] is omitted entirely. I recommend you set punctuation >>>>> to "most" before continuing. Here's the line: >>>>> >>>>> [self setDiscardStack:[[AITCardStack alloc] initWithRoles:@[[[self >>>>> solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole]]]]; >>>>> >>>>> I assume you read that line by line, or all at once in a say-all. Go back >>>>> and examine it word by word, or character by character, and see if there >>>>> isn't a part near the end that VO skipped over entirely. I can reproduce >>>>> this with any voice, and I'm starting to wonder if the brackets are >>>>> getting VO confused. On the Mac, in-line speech commands are surrounded >>>>> by double brackets, and I think the speech manager that lets VO talk >>>>> might be getting mixed up. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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