When using a screen reader like VO, a screen saver is entirely unnecessary.
In fact if the screen saver has some moving parts like some web pages, like
waving banners, falling leaves, etc., it will definitely interfere with the
screen reader, since the VO will be attempting to read the screen with this
clutter on it. In my opinion, if using a screen reader the best thing to do
is have no screen saver. They do nothing for saving your screen or
improving the readability of your screen reader.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: Is a screen saver really necessary?
Hi James,
Not sure about screen savers, but i have heard that it doesn't matter
with these screens. By the way thanks for the tip on manually putting the
laptop to sleep with command option eject - i didn't know that
James
On 5 Aug 2007, at 10:27, James Jolley wrote:
Hi Anne,
Right then, I have done this, but the big one to ask is will it possibly
ruine my screen by not having it on? I am using a mac book laptop
machine and I have an apple keyboard attached to it via USB. I know
those screens on the laptops are LCD so I was just curious if it
mattered.
Regarding sleep, I disabled that also and tend to put my own mac to
sleep whenever I am away from it with command, option, eject.
-James-
On 5 Aug 2007, at 08:42, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello everyone,
Unfortunately, when listening to a book or a podcast, there is no
activity on the screen, so if you set the Screensaver to come on after
the computer goes to sleep , it will still be activated at these
inconvenient times. The only solution is to set it to Never.
HTH
Anne
On Aug 5, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
On 4 Aug 2007, at 22:23, louie wrote:
The bother is my sighted wife will tell me that the screen is
flashing and I must fix it.
And on 8/4/07, James Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added:
Also, it is irritating when your listening to something and VoiceOver
screams "Screnn saver is on" that isn't fun.
Ah okay. In that case, screen savers provide no advantage over the Mac
automatically sleeping; they're essentially power-wasting but
screen-saving decorations. A simple solution would be to set the
timeout for screen saver activation to be the same as or longer than
the timeout for the Mac going to sleep. In effect, the screen saver
will never be activated because the Mac will fall to sleep
simultaneously or first. Here's instructions:
1. Go to Apple menu.
2. Open System Preferences.
3. Open Energy Saver.
4. Select the Sleep tab.
5. Under "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for", slide
the slider to (for example) "1 hr".
6. Press the Screen Saver button.
7. Under "Start screen saver", slide the slider to "1hr".
8. Close System Preferences.
9. That's it. You're done! (in theory...)
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
