yes! that is what often happens to me. What I usually do is to command tab out of mail or wherever I am trying to use the spell check and command tab back that usually solves the issue. Of course the best is to go to window chooser and close the alert , but I just command tab quick and that gets the focus of the alert out of the screen I am working in. HTH, Rachel
On Dec 7, 2011, at 4:38 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > I have noticed that if you have an alert on the screen, this can interfere > with using VO-shift-m to bring up the context menu. Generally I have no > problems using the command-semicolon method for checking spelling, but again > if there is an alert on the screen that seems to cause a problem. > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't use this method to spell check so have not noticed a problem. My I >> suggest when this issue does occur for you press command shift semicolon to >> bring up the spell check window instead of checking spelling in the document >> itself? >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker...@gmail.com >> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >> www.mobileaccess.org >> >> On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> Sometimes I am finished writing a mail message and press command coma to go >>> to first misspelled word. VO says the highlighted word but pressing vo >>> shift m does not do anything. Cannot always reproduse so do not know what >>> causes this intermitent behavior. >>> >>> Anyone else noticed this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ioana >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
