Status Bar Item Accessibility
Status Bar Item Accessibility
- Subject: Status Bar Item Accessibility
- From: Jon Shea <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:53:05 -0400
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,
-Jon _______________________________________________
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