Re: Getting notified when VoiceOver cursor changes?
Re: Getting notified when VoiceOver cursor changes?
- Subject: Re: Getting notified when VoiceOver cursor changes?
- From: David Niemeijer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:03:23 +0100
At 11:20 -0800 13/3/06, Mike Engber wrote:
I've just noticed that descriptions in my app that are entered as
"A-D", "E-J" are improperly read. Do I have to set descriptions to
"ay to dee" or "ee to jay" instead of nice "A-D" to achieve proper
reading?
Can be role descriptions and element descriptions shown somewhere
or are just for reading purposes so it would be OK to do what I do?
Is there some alternative to get "A-D" properly read?
AXDecriptions are supposed to be regular text (not phonetic). Voice
Over does "read" the AXDescriptions, but other accessibility apps
treat them as text.
That being said, I don't think it would be unreasonable for a button
labeled "n-m" to have a description that was "n to m" or even "en to
em". Note - I picked the letters "n" and "m" because those are among
the few letters whose name I know how to spell (thanks to playing
scrabble).
I would not like to see this happen. Spelling out "A-D" as "ay to
dee" could lead to misreading when using non-Apple voices (because
you would essentially be optimizing for the pronunciation of specific
voices). It would also cause issues when an item is displayed rather
than spoken (I mean it would look rather weird to see "ay to dee"
instead of "A to D". Finally, it would cause problems when reading it
as text in a foreign language voice, where as "A-D" or even "A to D"
would probably sound more understandable as the "A" and "D" could be
pronounced correctly for that language and "ay" and "dee" would
probably not sound the way you would want.
david.
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