Hi Robert, I'm pasting this in from a message I sent in April about setting up the iPod Nano 4G. It describes where to check for the updating status when syncing -- this is the player status window of iTunes that announces which track is currently playing, etc. The main thing is that the updating information state only gets read when you move onto this field so hold down the VO keys and alternate moving arrow keys off and on the sync status information. I haven't checked this against the latest version of iTunes, but anything that changes is likely to be a quite minor modification that you can figure out from the information below.
<begin excerpt> There is a status window in iTunes that you can reach by doing a VO-Up Arrow twice after you stop interacting with the iTunes Settings scroll area. The first VO-Up Arrow gets announced for me as "Text List View Switcher" the status window is announced as "LCD scroll area". You'll need to interact, and you'll also need to move off and on the fields with VO-arrow keys to get the updated messages. If I VO-down arrow and VO-up arrow fast, I'll hear "Syncing iPod Do Not Disconnect" and "Updating <your name's> iPod". This message alternates with a second message that will tell you the actual files being copies at the time you sample by name and number. So I could hear the name of an Audiobook file and a number like copied 71 files of 73. When everything is done you'll hear "Sync is complete" in this field. The main thing is that you have to move on and off the fields to get the updated status. The other thing you can check, which is less helpful than the status window (which, incidentally, is the "Now Playing" window when you are playing music in iTunes), is the capacity bar scroll area. If you are in the iTunes Settings Scroll area for your summary settings, VO-Down Arrow to the Capacity Bar scroll area and interact. This gives you the amount of space that is used on your Nano, and the values actually change (in blocky jumps) while your iPod updates if you monitor it. It's less useful to check things here until your sync is finished. You can interact and VO-right arrow across to find out the amount of space allocated to audio, video, other (I think that's contacts and games and, in our case, the spoken menus), and free space. <end excerpt> Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Jun 1, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Robert Carter wrote: > > Hi, > > When an iPod is syncing with a Mac, is there any way to get > VoiceOver to speak the progress of the sync? Also, when a CD is > being burned is there any way to get VoiceOver to speak the progress > of the burn process? > > Thanks, > > Robert Carter > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
