Hi Mark This works great IMO. Once you have the setting you want, you drag your finger around the screen. So you don't swipe but just drag. If your setting is on word then VO will only read out the word your finger is on. IF it is on Paragraph then of course the whole paragraph will be read out.
Hope this helps Garth @BlindTechMusing on Twitter On 30/01/2012, at 4:21 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Colin and thank you for the reply. > > As I stated in my original message, I can get the setting changed to sentence > but, afterwards, I cannot seem to navigate by sentence. So, once the setting > is set to Sentence, what gesture do you employ to navigate by sentences? > > Mark > On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > >> Hi there! >> Well I can help here! >> It is not clear but I found out by accident! >> What you have to do is keep your finger on the track pad and tap the key up >> and down to change the setting! >> But the way most people think the instruction means is to hold the key down >> and tap the track pad and then think it does not work! >> So try the other way to change settings! >> hth Colin >> >> On 28 Jan 2012, at 23:58, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>> This has never worked for me Mark even in Snow leopard. Do not know if its >>> a bug or if I've been doing something wrong. >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>> On 28 Jan 2012, at 11:38 PM, "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> >>>> I am currently running the latest version of OSX Lion on my MacBook Pro. >>>> >>>> The following is from Braille page 217 of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard >>>> VoiceOver >>>> User Guide describing methods for reading text: >>>> >>>> Text: >>>> >>>> "Change how VoiceOver reads text [by word, line, sentence, or paragraph) >>>> Press the Command key while touching a finger on the trackPad." >>>> >>>> Now, when I do this, VoiceOver does switch between the above stated >>>> selections; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to use the setting >>>> once >>>> it has been changed. That is to say, after hearing that sentence is >>>> selected, I attempt to navigate, by sentence, by simply single-finger >>>> swiping up, down, left, or right on the trackPad but it does not navigate >>>> by >>>> sentence. Further, after hearing that Sentence is selected, I continue to >>>> hold the Command key down while performing the above mentioned gestures to >>>> no avail. >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong? Is this a bug? I would be happy to use the Rotor >>>> to >>>> set my choice to sentence but sentence is not an option on the Rotor. >>>> >>>> All comments welcomed. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. > -- 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.
