Getting VO to read static text
Getting VO to read static text
- Subject: Getting VO to read static text
- From: Scott McCormack <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:59:13 -0700
Hi all, I am new to the list and am working on learning the
accessibility API and how VoiceOver responds to it. I am trying to
find a way to get some text in a window to be read when it changes.
The text is changed by a user pressing a button and I would like VO to
read the text whenever it changes without the user needed to navigate
to the text block to check it. So far I have not found a way to do
this. VO ignores valuechange events which the static text object is
generating and I have tried to discover what windows like the
confirmation sheets that appear when you close safari with 2 or more
tabs open or textedit with an unsaved document since in both cases the
text elements of these sheets are read by VO automatically and it
seems to be triggered on the creation of the sheet since the messages
are not read by VO with focus changes or the sheet (re)gaining focus.
Any thoughts? Apple doesn't seem to provide any documentation that
relates specifically to how VO interacts with the API which seems to
me to be a glaring hole in their otherwise reasonable documentation.
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Scott McCormack
Senior Accessibility Consultant
SSB Bart Group
300 Brannan Street
Suite 608
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415)624-2712
Fax: (415)624-2708
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