Excellent, VO A is just the ticket to read the progress. I believe the download ticking is a Mac sound. I hear it on my wife's MacBook and she does not use VoiceOver. I did confirm that my box for sounds is checked in the VO utility. I'll keep hunting. Thanks for this.
Brett On Jun 3, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
