Hi Simon,
Have you tried the item chooser once you've performed your search? VO keys
and i will launch that for you. If that allows you to get to the area you
need to be in, you can type the first few letters of whatever that item
turns out to be to get there quicker in future.
hth
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Cavendish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: voiceover and ultraligua
Dear Listers,
I need to work in a multilingual environment from time to time. Under
Windows latform, I used to use an electronic dictionary called
Ultralingua. It worked ok-ish if I used Jaws cursor to read the results
of a particular search. Ultralingua has its Macintosh version which I
have downloaded in order to test drive it. Unfortunately, it seems to be
quite inaccessible. What happens is that although I can access the combo
box where I type the word I'm looking for, the results appear in a
separate box underneath to which Voiceover does not want to go. I can
move the scrobar up and down using the voiceover because the scrollbar is
in the same box as the word search box. But the results are annoyingly
beyond my reach.
Do you know of any tricks I could try to be able to read the result
windows and still be able to move the vertical scrollbar up and down?
I've e-mailed Ultralingua with a gentle but detailed complaint regarding
the inaccessibility of their product. I haven't heard from them yet. I
had a constructive conversation with their top man once when I complained
about the problems under Windows which were then caused by their having
introduced skins into their product, and he showed some positive attitude
and a promise that they were going to work on accesiblity. That was
however a long time ago, and I haven't heard from them since. So I
wouldn't hold my breath especially that their argument for not having
looked at the accessibility was as it often is the case centred around
the size of their business and a lack of resources.
With best wishes
Simon
