how to make voiceover announce links quickly

By Abdul Haseeb Jabbar, 27 July, 2016

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hi guys, I have been using my mac for some time.
While browsing on the web with safari and other browsers using voiceover, I notice that voiceover announces the text in a link after saying link, and after a little delay it says the text. For example, it says link and a little delay and then it says sign in. Compared to this, on windows i use NVDA and it reports the text in a link immediately with no delay. It would be nice and time-saving if voiceover can announce the links without delays. Is there any shortcut or workaround to this problem? Any answers/help will be appreciated. Thanks
OSX el capitan 10.11.6

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By Jake on Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 20:16

What I do is have VO set to play a tone instead of say link. Alternatively, you can modify VO's verbosity settings so that it says the word "link" after rather than before the link in question which also helps a lot.

By Abdul Haseeb Jabbar on Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 20:16

thanks for your answer. How can i set voiceover to play a sound rathar than announce link. Secondly i tried to set verbosity settings to low, but then it does not tell me if the link is a heading or i visited it.

Open the VoiceOver utility and go to the verbosity category. From there, select the text tab. You'll want to find the setting what says "When encountering a link/attachment:" and change it to play tone. Hope this helps.