You guys absolutely rock! That has to be it. Voiceover Utility / Verbosity / Text tab / When moving the cursor
Thanks so much. -Rodney On Aug 13, 2012, at 1:03 PM, "Red.Falcon" <velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Hey Alex! > Yes you got it! > And it is under Verbosity! > Hth Colin > > On 13 Aug 2012, at 17:45, Alex Hall wrote: > >> It might be the cursor setting. I think it's in the vo utility under >> verbosity, but cannot be sure. Anyway, it is a setting that tells vo >> to speak either the item the cursor goes over, which is the default, >> or the item past the cursor, which may have been the setting on that >> mac you tried. >> >> On 8/13/12, Rodney Haynie <rodney.hay...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello everyone. >>> I was on a Mac computer running Lion on Saturday and when I was typing >>> in Text Edit, and I went to move around between the words I wrote, I >>> found the navigation was just like I was on a Windows PC. >>> >>> On a standard setup on OSX Lion and Mountain Lion: >>> I can use Option+LeftArrow to move to the previous word. The cursor >>> will be in the front of the word. So if I type something at this >>> point, the text will appear before the word. >>> If I press Option+RightArrow, I will move to the end of the word. So >>> typing at this point will add characters at the end of the word. >>> >>> The same for Voiceover commands... VO LeftArrow would put me at the >>> beginning of a word. VO RightArrow would put me at the end of a word. >>> >>> The Mac I saw on Saturday, did not behave this way. When I pressed >>> Option+LeftArrow, I was move to the previous word at the beginning... >>> ok that is fine. >>> But when I press Option+RightArrow I am moved to the beginning of the >>> next word, not the end of the word like I am use to on a Mac. >>> >>> The same for Voiceover commands... VO RightArrow would put me at the >>> beginning of the next word. >>> >>> I can not find any setting anywhere that would allow this. I assume it >>> will be a System Preference of some sort since it is not only Voicover >>> commands that this is affecting. >>> >>> All of the above was while I was in Text Edit. >>> >>> Please shed some light on this, if you know of the setting. I've been >>> Googling and searching Help to no avail. >>> >>> The one thing I did not try was rebooting the computer or restarting >>> Voiceover. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> -Rodney >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from GMail website) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> 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.
