Re: AppleScript and VoiceOver
Re: AppleScript and VoiceOver
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and VoiceOver
- From: Greg Kearney <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:17:29 +0800
Yes I have activated the switch that turn on the control.
Could you provide any samples that you might have of scrips that work. For example the following works
Move VO cursor to dock
But the following fails
Move VO cursor to left
Move VO cursor left
Thank you
Sent from my iPhone
Greg Kearney
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
> On 27 Oct 2013, at 10:30 pm, "Jonathan C. Cohn" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Did you turn on control VoiceOver with AppleScript? I never remember the error codes but I would expect this would be a good first check. VO is a bit difficult to control but I have gotten some functions to work.
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> Best regards,
> Jonathan Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Oct 25, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Greg Kearney <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I’m hoping someone can help out here. I need to be able to control VoiceOVer with AppleScript in particular I need to be able to move the VO cursor and then record what VO says. Bellow is the script I have to do this using the VO AppleScript dictionary as a guide:
>>
>> tell application "VoiceOver"
>> move to dock
>> get the content of the last phrase
>> end tell
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>> When I run this or any other similar command, for example move next, I get the following error:
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>> error "VoiceOver got an error: An error of type 4 has occurred." number 4 from application "VoiceOver" to specifier
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>> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here?
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>> Thank you
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>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
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