Hi
Doesn't seem to help with the iTunes store, that was one of the first
things I tried a few months ago when I started playing around with
this. I've tried ever since, on each iTunes update, and nothing. What
interests me is that Voiceover can obviously see some controls, but
can't navigate to them. I'm going to write to Apple about this one, I
think they need to know.
On Mar 15, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Thanks, Jacob. This is most interesting and veryuseful and perhaps
this might be a way to access certain areas of the screen in the
iTunes Store, when making a purchase. And if not, perhaps in future
updates, Apple can place these controls in easy-to-locate areas with
a text label so that a physical mouse can be used with the settings
Jacob outlined here. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On Mar 15, 2008, at 1:15 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.
