Doesn't, I tried it. You can click each box, but they don't state a
thing and remain simply silent. If each spoke even "unknown" we would
be in great shape. It simply states "scroll area" when you move the
mouse into that spot. So, unless you've got a way to orient your mouse
and know exactly where you would have to click for each grid position,
forget it. Also, 90% of effects are not usable at all with Voiceover
even with mouse controls. Apple's Dynamics and Multiband Compressor
work, along with the EQ. The Apple specific AU plugins tend to work
once you get access to them with sighted assistance for the grid. If
your goal is to set up an effects chain one time, a friend could help
out.
Ryan
On Mar 15, 2008, at 5:08 PM, vashaun jones wrote:
I wonder if this will help with the effects panel in Audio Hijack Pro.
On Mar 15, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hey Everyone
Some of you probably have figured this out already, but I thought
I'd post my findings here. For a while now I've been playing around
with utilizing the mouse--yes, the actual, physical mouse. That
thing next to our keyboard, or underneath it in case of laptops.
I've made an interesting discovery in the process of doing this. It
seems that, even while some controls can't be navigated to with
Voiceover, they can be seen if you have Voiceover set to speak text
under the mouse and you move the mouse onto the controls. Some
examples of this are the checkboxes in iTunes next to each track,
which Voiceover can't navigate to but is able to see with the
mouse, and the sorting buttons at the top of the iTunes track
lists. This is by no means confined to iTunes, however. This also
worked with my scanner software yesterday. I have an Epson all-in-
one and, if any of you have used Epson scanners, you know what fun
their software can be to use with Voiceover. Basically, the way
it's configured when you start out you can navigate to a button, an
unknown, and the close button. Well, turns out there's a lot more
on the screen than those things... and the controls aren't inside
the unknown. Using the mouse you can see them, and manipulate the
controls as you'd expect.
I'm posting this just to let everyone know that I've found that the
mouse can in fact be useful. If you aren't comfortable with the
physical mouse, mouse keys will also serve this purpose, though
I've come to prefer the actual mouse itself. Here's what I have my
settings set to when I need to use the mouse, for reference:
Announce when mouse cursor enters a window, checked
speak text under mouse after delay, checked
delay slider set all the way to 0, no delay
And before anyone asks, I'm a totally blind user.
Just a little FYI.
