Status Bar Item Accessibility

Subject: Status Bar Item Accessibility
From: Jon Shea <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:53:05 -0400
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Is there a way to make an application that lives in the Status Bar accessible through VoiceOver?

I am developing an LSUIElement = 1 application (ie, it has no presence in the Dock or Menu Bar) called ExpanDrive. Our primary UI element is an icon in the Status Bar. I’m trying to make this accessible to VoiceOver users, but I’ve reach a bit of an impasse.

The VoiceOver guide says that hitting VO-m twice will access the first “status menu” in the menu bar. However, it seems that this technique only provides access to _some_ status menus. My experiments suggest that applications that create their status menu presence with the NSMenuExtra private API are accessible in the expected way, and one can use VO shortcut keys to cycle through them.

On the other hand, applications that are placed in the status menu using the public NSStatusItem API are _not_ accessible. When cycling focus in the Status Bar, these applications are simply ignored.

Is there some way I can make our application VoiceOver accessible without resorting to a private API? Or is there another technique for accessing the application that I can suggest to our VoiceOver users?

Thanks,

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