I enabled speak selected text, but cannot find speak button. I think it may not work with VoiceOver, as in the process of finding speak button, selected text becomes unselected On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:15 PM Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, that gesture, the three finger quadruple tap, copies last spoken > text to the clipboard, and not the selected text. A crucial difference. > I am investigating the excess ability item that can "speak selected text" > which is found under accessibility/speech in settings. But I can't get it > to work. I have been able to get the "speak screen" item to work fine, but > not the selection speak. If you want to look at something interesting check > that one out see if you can get that working. Thanks for your input though > Sent from my IPhone > > > On Dec 31, 2015, at 12:25 PM, gs <geoffsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, I obviously didn't mean a quadruple double tap but simply four quick > taps with three fingers. > > On Dec 31, 2015, at 12:22 PM, gs <geoffsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My mistake. There is no gesture that I know of to say selected text. > However, there is a gesture to copy selected text to clipboard. This is > accomplished with a quadruple three-finger double tap. > > > On Dec 31, 2015, at 11:55 AM, gs <geoffsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a way but I cannot remember the gesture and am not certain > whether it is posted in the list of keyboard commands in the manual. So why > am I even taking up everyone's time? Well, I suspect this might be a > valuable gesture for a lot of people to note. When I get the chance, I will > look in the manual and see if it is there. > > > On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:21 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a command I can use to have voiceover speak whatever text happens > to be selected? I'm working in the notes app and would like to be able to > hear what text is actually selected. > > > Sent from my IPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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