But do those allow you to go there and edit that line or sentence or paragraph? Do they let you select a sentence and copy it? Unfortunately not, thus while it may be handy to have vo read the current sentence, that's not really what was asked for.
Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-09-08, at 5:20 PM, Kestrell wrote: > Those are the basic Mac commands, but there are also the VoiceOver commands, > which I find to often be more intuitive, such as > VO-l read line > VO-S read sentence > VO-w read word > VO-P read paragraph > > etc. > > Kes > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: erik burggraaf > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 5:14 PM > Subject: Re: commands for editing and reviewing text? > > Move left one character: left arrow, > move right one character: right arrow, > Move left one word: option left arrow, > Move right one word: option right arrow, > Move to the beginning of the line: control left arrow, > Move to the end of the line: control right arrow, > Note that sometimes this is flakey but command left and right arrows also do > this function. > Move to the previous paragraph option uparrow, > Move to the next paragraph: option down arrow, > Note that a paragraph is marked by a singal hard return, > Move to top of document: command up arrow, > Move to end of document: command down arrow, > > To select by any of the above increments add shift. For example to move > right one word press option right arrow. To select one word to the right > press option shift uparrow. > Select all: command A, > Undo: command Z, > Cut: command X, > Copy: command C, > Paste: command V, > Backspace: backspace, > Delete: fn Backspace, > > Hope this helps, > > Erik Burggraaf > This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When > will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference > Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2011-09-08, at 4:48 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I know this has been covered before, but commands I thought were supposed to >> work do not. How do I move by character, word, sentence, line, and >> paragraph? Currently, I have to hope to not make a mistake while writing on >> my mac because I know I can't go back and fix it, and emails with articles >> in them (such as those from PC World) are not >> easy to navigate because I can't just move by paragraphs. I have not even >> tried anything like scripting or writing documents because I can't move >> around text at all. At least the suggestion I got a couple days ago has >> stopped the dashboard from constantly popping up when I try to review text... >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from BrailleNote >> mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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=en.
