[NFBCS] VoiceOver on Mac with Python

[Greg Kearney]

Not really the case here is how to set up VoiceOver to read indentations:

In VoiceOver Utilities go to the verbosity settings and do the following:

1. In the speech section set your verbosity level to the high.
2. In the text settings set the punctuation to "All"
3. In the text settings set the repeated punctuation to "always spoken".
4. In the Navigation section set the VoiceOver cursor to by synchronized with the keyboard focus and have mouse follow the VoiceOver cursor

Now in the code, use the standard keyboard cursor movement key to read the code. You will notice that VoiceOver will now state if there is a tab or space, it's better to use tabs if you can.

Remember that MacOS also support emacs binding in the text editing system and so you can do things like this:

option-right arrow = move one word to the right placing the insertion point at the end of the word just read.

option-left arrow = move one word to the right placing the insertion point at the start of the word just read.

option-up arrow = move to the start of the current line. Doing this again move you to the start of the line above.

option-down arrow = move to the end of the current line. Doing this again move you to the end of the line below.

There are a ton of other ones of these and they can even be customized. Instructions for that is found here: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Here are some others more than you likely ever wanted to know:
https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html


control-A	move to the beginning of the paragraph	
control-B	move backward
control-D	delete forward:
control-E	move to the end of the paragraph
control-F	move forward
control-H	delete backward
control-K	delete to the end of the paragraph
control-L	center the selection in the text area	
control-N	move down
control-O	split the current line	
control-P	move up
control-T	transpose letters
control-V	move one page down
control-Y	yank back ‘killed’ text

Remember to turn on invisible chars in your editor as well.

Greg Kearney
	


> On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Greg Wocher via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> Unfortunately VoiceOver does not support indentation levels. 
> 
> Greg Wocher
> 
> 
>> On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:22 PM, Timothy Breitenfeldt via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> HI, I started using my Mac more often recently, and was working on a
>> python project. I am using COT Editor for now, but my issue is that I
>> can't figure out how to make voiceover read indentation. I was looking
>> around, and I saw a post on apple this that mentioned that this is not
>> a feature of Voiceover.
>> 
>> That just seems crazy to me, does Voiceover really not support reading
>> indentation levels?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Timothy Breitenfeldt
>> -- 
>> 
>> Timothy Breitenfeldt
>> 
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