Re: Getting VO to read static text
Re: Getting VO to read static text
- Subject: Re: Getting VO to read static text
- From: Scott McCormack <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:13:43 -0700
Hi James & list,
So if I understand you correctly there is no way for an application to
explicitly tell VO that something should be read at a particular time?
The application I am working on has a status message that changes as
the user works through the controls in the dialog and while putting a
hotspot on the status text does work quite well we now have to inform
the user via training or documentation that the status text changes
real-time and they should set a hotspot to get real-time updates. I'll
definitely check out bugreporter since there are a lot of things I
wish VO would do that it doesn't as of yet.
Is it possible for an application to cause the VO cursor to move to
another control without affecting the keyboard focus? If so this could
be a roundabout way of pointing something out to the user. Also how
exactly is Braille tracking handled? I don't have a USB based Braille
display so I am limited to using the viewer for testing and so far the
Braille just seems to just show what the VO cursor is showing. Are
there cases where the Braille can be separated from the speech VO
cursor?
Thanks
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Scott McCormack
Senior Accessibility Consultant
SSB Bart Group
On Oct 23, 2008, at 4:28 PM, James Dempsey wrote:
Scott,
It sounds like the app is sending the correct notifications /
behaving as it should from an AX perspective.
The user has to explicitly choose to automatically hear changes for
a particular static text. The cool thing about setting this static
text as a hotspot is that VoiceOver will continue to watch the
changes for this hotspot without the need for the VoiceOver cursor
to be on top of it."
If you have any feedback on how this works in VO, please file a bug
or enhancement request at bugreporter.apple.com.
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