Hi. First question: You can enable and disable the Voiceover sounds including the clicking sound Voiceover makes to indicate the progress bar is moving in the VOiceover utility. Press VO f8, press the down arrow to the sound tab and press the tab key to check if the "mute sounds" is enabled or disabled.
Second question: You can press VO a to read what's under the Voiceover cursor. That means you can move the VO cursor to the progress bar, and then press VO a to read the Vo cursors content. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: [email protected] Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 03/06/2009, at 00.36, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
