Re: Manipulating the VoiceOver cursor programmatically
Re: Manipulating the VoiceOver cursor programmatically
- Subject: Re: Manipulating the VoiceOver cursor programmatically
- From: Nick Kocharhook <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:58:50 +0000
- Thread-topic: Manipulating the VoiceOver cursor programmatically
On Apr 25, 2014, at 5:28 AM, David Gatwood <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2014, at 08:47 PM, Josh Scotland <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Now for the possible solution. iOS has API that lets developers programmatically manipulate where the VoiceOver cursor should go. Would it help the issue you are seeing here if there was a corollary API for OS X? Instead of posting a generic notification, you could tell accessibility clients that a particular UI element should now gain focus.
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> I'm pretty sure that an OS X equivalent of the iOS API would work perfectly, yes. :-)
I have definitely run into situations where having an OS X version of this API would be extremely useful! When you bring in a new view which doesn’t have any NSControls, it can be difficult to make VO behave in a predictable way.
-Nick
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