Re: How to test for VoiceOver being active?
Re: How to test for VoiceOver being active?
- Subject: Re: How to test for VoiceOver being active?
- From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:58:10 +0000
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
Hi,
Sorry for the delayed return answer, but the reason we would like to know
as we have additional assistive support within our application (captions/
voice overs), and we presently would like to know, if there is any other
"text to voice" daemons running e.g. VoiceOver and then switch off ours,
instead of overloading the user with 2 voices speaking the same things and
probably out of synch as well.
If your tool doesn't generate sounds then we should be OK, but our first
step is detecting what comes with the OS and then we'll move forward from
there.
Thanks
Mark.
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> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:31:50 +0100
> From: David Niemeijer <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: How to test for VoiceOver being active?
> To: email@hidden, Accessibility
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> At 11:37 +0000 6/2/06, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We are in the same boat (for a very large ISP) as also need away to detect
>> this (rdar://4147613 entered June 05).
>
> Would you mind clarifying why you want to detect VoiceOver, there is
> other assistive technology software (including ours, see
> http://www.assistiveware.com) relying on the exact same features
> VoiceOver relies on. Do you also want to detect the presence of such
> third party software? Or do you want to break the carefully
> implemented access features that third party software provides for
> people with physical or vision impairments to allow them to access
> and use their computer? Or, what if a third party develops an
> alternative screen reader that perhaps would not use voice but
> tactile or braille output (and perhaps be a useful alternative to
> some people), would you break that software or would your software
> break...
>
> A concerned assistive technology developer,
>
> david.
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