Hi, There is a VO shortcut to read the currently focused item. I am a teacher of VO so I should know it, ... But a teacher can't know everything, ... Wink. Sometimes the students must teach the teachers.
Try looking in the VO help. Regards, Alex, On 2-Jun-09, at 3:36 PM, James Dietz wrote: > > Regarding the first question: Not sure how to get the ticking to > return. I've never actually heard ticking sounds for anything other > than the Apple Software Update progress - all other ones are quiet > with VO. Maybe I've inadvertantly turned it off, as I think > softwareupdate logs in under another account when it's doing it's > dirty work. Second question: you can try setting up the download > progress area as a hotspot. Press vo+shift+number (any number up to 9 > maybe) to save a hotspot (when your vo cursor is on the progress bar), > and press vo+cmd+number to have vo "describe" the item at that > particular hotspot. Vo+Number moves focus to the hotspot. This doesn't > work with some things *ahem song name in itunes ahem*, but it's pretty > neat otherwise. > > James > > On 6/2/09, Brett Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The first question I have is related to the ticking sound one can >> hear >> when VO is focussed on the progress indicator during a download. >> Somehow the ticking has stopped on my Mac, and I like it, and I want >> it back. I explored System Preferences Sounds, but don't see >> anything >> relating to specific events. Does anyone know how to activate the >> download ticking sound? >> My second question relates to VO actually reading the download >> progress indicator. I always simply VO right back and forth to hear >> the data. Well, the other day I pressed some key and the percentage >> was spoken while remaining in the same place. I thought, cool, I'll >> have to remember this. Now I can't reproduce it. Does anyone know a >> key combo to press to read a progress indicator without moving back >> and forth? >> I know these questions belong at the very bottom of a priority list, >> but the list is here so I'm asking. Thanks for the incredible >> information the list members have provided to me thus far, both in >> questions I've asked and reading others posts. >> >> Brett >> >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
