Hi Nic, I know what you mean about writing and re-writing phrases. I have not sen this behaviour, but it seems that this update has broken some VO things. I've noticed that sometimes it takes me some time to get VO to respond after waking up my Mac.
Have you reported this to Apple? TC James On 17 Nov 2009, at 11:53, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hello dudes and dudettes, > > I have something very weird happening with VoiceOver since I updated. It > didn't happen for a little while, but it started happening ever since > yesterday rolled around. Not sure why, since I haven't changed anything. At > least, not anything I can think of. > > Basically, most of the time when I interact with text in pretty much any > application, VoiceOver will start reading random things. In the case of Mail, > when interacting with the text area in a message I'm either composing or > reading, it will start reading from top to bottom if I'm doing Option-Right > arrow to go by word, regardless of the line I'm on. For example, if I'm on > this exact line, it'll say: "Text. Edit. Hello dudes and dudettes, insertion > after word "Dudettes," after character "Space". even though this isn't at all > correct. The VoiceOver cursor is actually on this line. I see this > everywhere, and it's really getting confusing when I'm trying to go by word > or character. If anyone has a fix to this, please let me know, as it's > starting to drive me up a tree. I also must mention that VoiceOver reports > incorrectly. It says now that insertion point is after the word "Dudettes," > but insertion point is after the character period, which is not in the above > line at the top of the message, as it claims. It is actually a comma. This > happens only when I'm interacting, and as well when I arrow down during > interaction. Usually only seems to happen if I try using these methods at the > beginning of current line, however. > > For the record, just for your information, VoiceOver doesn't actually use any > punctuation in these messages when reporting this. Just placing them in the > message for easier reading. > > Thanks, and I sincerely hope someone can help. This is making me so sad. I'm > sure this might not be a big deal to most of you, but for someone like me who > is his own worst critic, I re-read and re-write everything before sending it, > and 'm never satisfied with my wording of phrases. > > As a last note, this happens on web pages as well when interacting. Also, > what is interesting to note is that, for some reason, not all web pages allow > you to read with the arrow keys if you want to select text. If someone knows > why this is, I'd like to know. I can also provide an audio file of this on > Sendspace in case this does not make any sense at all. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=.
