Voice Over and continuous reading
Hello,
Is there any way to get Voice Over to read a long document, such as a long web page, continuously from a starting position to the end of the document without user intervention? Windows screen readers do this via their read to end feature which automatically moves the cursor down the document reading as it goes, automatically scrolling as necessary. You can press Control at any time to stop the reading to explore an item at the current reading position in more detail, then later restart the continuous reading from your new position. This is extremely useful but I cannot fathum out a way to do this on the MAC using Voice Over.
I initially thought that vo+A would do the job, but alas no. At least in Safari it only reads the current paragraph. You then have to press vo+CursorDown to read the next paragraph wich is very tedious in a long document.
If there is no such function yet in Voice Over I would strongly urge Apple to add it in the future.
Many thanks.
Paul Hopewell
hopewell@hopewell.org.uk
Is there any way to get Voice Over to read a long document, such as a long web page, continuously from a starting position to the end of the document without user intervention? Windows screen readers do this via their read to end feature which automatically moves the cursor down the document reading as it goes, automatically scrolling as necessary. You can press Control at any time to stop the reading to explore an item at the current reading position in more detail, then later restart the continuous reading from your new position. This is extremely useful but I cannot fathum out a way to do this on the MAC using Voice Over.
I initially thought that vo+A would do the job, but alas no. At least in Safari it only reads the current paragraph. You then have to press vo+CursorDown to read the next paragraph wich is very tedious in a long document.
If there is no such function yet in Voice Over I would strongly urge Apple to add it in the future.
Many thanks.
Paul Hopewell
hopewell@hopewell.org.uk
IMAC, Mac OS X (10.5.6), I am visually impaired and so rely on Voice Over. I also run Windows XP Home on my IMAC under VMWare fusion using WindowEyes screen reader.
