Kind of. It does the same thing, in that you can get VO to speak a string of text. As you said, though, there's no external client involved; any OS X app can use this on any modern Mac. The only question is what happens if VO is disabled at the time... I'll have to try that. On Jul 21, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, is it like the NVDA controller client, without a client? > On 7/21/2014 8:29 AM, Alex Hall wrote: >> It's for those programming on the Mac. If you are not a developer, you can >> safely ignore this message. The function essentially forces VO to speak a >> string, which is something that I've been looking for for quite a >> while. This way, apps can use VO directly instead of using a speech >> synthesizer. Very handy, but again, only useful to developers. >> On Jul 21, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> What does this do really? >>> I don't understand. >>> /A >>> 20 jul 2014 kl. 23:49 skrev Alex Hall <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> This looks like what I've been searching for for a while now, thanks for >>>> sharing! What is the second parameter, though? Can it be nil,or does it >>>> need to be some NSView object or subclass? Also, in your demo, why provide >>>> the string "Hi" instead of using the string that was passed n? I just want >>>> to be sure I understand the process. Thanks again. >>>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Tyler Thompson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, this is a tidbit for those of you interested in developing for OSX, >>>>> >>>>> I have dug through tons of documentation on VoiceOver accessibility and >>>>> submitted several support tickets to apple for assistance and I finally >>>>> wrote this function I thought I'd share with everybody: >>>>> >>>>> -(void)speakString:(NSString *)stringToSpeak >>>>> fromFocusedUIElement:(id)object >>>>> { >>>>> NSDictionary *announcementInfo = [[NSDictionary alloc] >>>>> initWithObjectsAndKeys:stringToSpeak, NSAccessibilityAnnouncementKey, >>>>> @"High", NSAccessibilityPriorityKey, nil]; >>>>> NSAccessibilityPostNotificationWithUserInfo(object, >>>>> NSAccessibilityAnnouncementRequestedNotification, announcementInfo); >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> This could easily be expanded on, for instance we could include in this >>>>> function a way to tell the object that currently has keyboard focus to >>>>> assure that VoiceOver always speaks the string as opposed to you having >>>>> to figure it out. We could also add a NSAccessibilityLayoutChanged >>>>> notification to refresh the braille display (Although in some very >>>>> bizarre cases this causes VoiceOver to speak twice (once with the >>>>> announcement, once for the layout change). In other cases the >>>>> announcement interrupts the layout change notification or visa versa, I >>>>> have yet to figure that bit out. >>>>> >>>>> However I felt like this code snippet could do some people good, so there >>>>> it is. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex Hall >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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