Where am I on the Screen?

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Press numpad-asterisk, until speakup says "highlight tracking," and see if
that helps.

Greg


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:35:03PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I am been using speakup under vinux for a couple of
> weeks, now, and love it but I ran in to a problem while running
> the FreeBSD installation disk. Some of the selection screens
> have you use the arrows to move the highlight up and down but the
> cursor doesn't follow along so there is nothing useful to hear.
> Is there anything in speakup that will find highlighted text or
> let you specify an attribute since I think that is what is
> happening? The Number Pad 5 or 8 keys don't helpbecause the
> cursor is probably off the screen or down at the bottom and not
> at the point of focus. When using the arrows, one just hears
> either "blank" or one of the last selections uselessly repeated
> each time the arrow moves up or down.
> 
> 	Thanks for any useful ideas.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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