Hi Rachel, You simply have to find the relevant bit of text, phone number, email, date and time, etc, by arrowing to it. You'll hear it say data detector. Then you just press VO shift M, and this will bring up a context menu. You can select the option that you want from the context menu.
HTH Marc On 2011-09-15, at 7:14 AM, Rachel magario wrote: > Paul and Garf, > > I respect your positions. I hope they make an option to turn it off, but not > do away with the feature. It did not bother me before and now that I know I > can make this in to a ical or address book entry. I am excited! Could someone > send me the email where someone just explained how to make this entry in to > an ical deal. I know it would not fill every thing, but any field that is > already filled is a time saver, plus it would help bad spellers like me! ;) I > cant find that other message, where someone explained how to use it. > Thanks, > Rachel. > > 1, at 7:36 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> I wrote Apple accessibility about the data detector issue, and it has been >> passed on to the right people they answered. Curious for the next update. I >> would like to turn this off as well. >> Paul. >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote: >> >>> Hi All >>> >>> Can you please tell me what it means when VO says data detector whilst >>> reading mail? Is there a way I can stop it? >>> Garth >>> >>> -- >>> 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.