Hi Scott,
I've just tried chooser menu in Ultralingua, and sadly it didn't work.
The item chooser menu contains various bits from the window where I
type a search to the exclusion of the window where the results occur.
I will just have to wait to see whether Ultrlingua is going to respond
to my problems, or else use windows plantform for now. Let's hope that
by reminding electronic products designers of our needs, things are
going to improve with time.
Thanks for your suggestion, Scott, it helps me learn to try various
tricks of the trade, so to speak.
With best wishes, Simon Cavendish
On 30 Dec 2007, at 12:34, Scott Chesworth wrote:
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]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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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
