This is something the developer of those applications would need to fix.
There are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which the developer
is supposed to supply information to along with labels on buttons etc
which VoiceOver depends on. If the developer doesn't follow Apple's
guidelines on how to do this then VO can't announce what's happening.
CB
Hernandez, Jose wrote:
How can one get VoiceOver in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to work with third
party applications such as Microsoft Office or Mozilla Firefox?
VoiceOver works great with integrated applications such as Safari or
TextEdit. The user is able to type words and/or characters in Safari or
TextEdit and VoiceOver will read the words and/or characters to the
user. However, in third party applications, VoiceOver does not read the
typed text. Any ideas? User would prefer not having to purchase software
to add this capability.
What is VoiceOver? See information about VoiceOver at
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/.
Thanks !
Jose -
