Hi Mac users, whenever I am reading an article in Safari when I want to read a spelling or when I want to read a letter by letter, how can I read with VoiceOver? Anybody could help me on this?
If I am not mistaken, you should be able to just arrow left or right to read by letter. If that does not work you can try holding shift + left or right arrow.
Finally, you can focus on a word, and press VO + w, w to have the word spelled out, or VO + w, w, w to have it spelled out phonetically.
@Brian shift arrows will select in safari. But yeah, usually, usually when the page is not a progressive web app in safari it's possible to do that. It's more complicated when we have pwa like discord or we are on any other browser. This systematically makes selection of adjacent elements (paragraphs / lines of text) very hard on the mac and I encourage you to report this issue to apple when you start facing it.
Once interacted with the text to the level of word-by-word navigation, you can step by characters by adding the Shift.
Naturally this is buggy such that, if you encounter a symbol while stepping by word, sometimes the VO cursor gets stuck. And so you must use the Shift key to get past the symbol, then you can resume moving by word.
Reading by character is one of the things I miss now that I've switched from Safari to Chrome. In Safari it just works, at least for me, using normal unmodified arrow keys.
In Chrome, reading by character is mostly impossible, even with their caret browsing feature enabled. Even VO+W fails much of the time. And as I age and lose the higher frequencies in my hearing range, being able to hear the spelling has become critical. My solution is to always keep an empty TextEdit window open so I can paste from my web browser into an editor.
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If I am not mistaken, you should be able to just arrow left or right to read by letter. If that does not work you can try holding shift + left or right arrow.
Finally, you can focus on a word, and press VO + w, w to have the word spelled out, or VO + w, w, w to have it spelled out phonetically.
HTH. :)
@Brian shift arrows will…
@Brian shift arrows will select in safari. But yeah, usually, usually when the page is not a progressive web app in safari it's possible to do that. It's more complicated when we have pwa like discord or we are on any other browser. This systematically makes selection of adjacent elements (paragraphs / lines of text) very hard on the mac and I encourage you to report this issue to apple when you start facing it.
For progressive web apps, if…
For progressive web apps, if you use the rotor you should be able to read/ select
VO-Shift-Left/Right
Once interacted with the text to the level of word-by-word navigation, you can step by characters by adding the Shift.
Naturally this is buggy such that, if you encounter a symbol while stepping by word, sometimes the VO cursor gets stuck. And so you must use the Shift key to get past the symbol, then you can resume moving by word.
Seems to work in Safari
Reading by character is one of the things I miss now that I've switched from Safari to Chrome. In Safari it just works, at least for me, using normal unmodified arrow keys.
In Chrome, reading by character is mostly impossible, even with their caret browsing feature enabled. Even VO+W fails much of the time. And as I age and lose the higher frequencies in my hearing range, being able to hear the spelling has become critical. My solution is to always keep an empty TextEdit window open so I can paste from my web browser into an editor.
@PaulMartz
I guess I’m not the only one to write or paste something in a text edit window for use in a different app.