I'd like to make a point of clarification here, this code snippet has it's place only for those who are writing apps for OSX. Applescript, while useful couldn't be used to accomplish the same thing as efficiently. This is of no use or interest to anybody who doesn't wish to code apps.
On Jul 21, 2014, at 3:22 PM, gkearney <[email protected]> wrote: > OK let me make this a bit clearer. > > IN the MacOS there is a system wide scripting language called AppleScript. > You can use it to automate actions in various programs or as in this case > create scripts to have VoiceOVer perform actions. > > tell application "VoiceOver" > output "Hello World" > end tell > > In this example the script tells VoiceOver to say the string "Hello World" as > if it had encountered it on the screen. > > > > > > > On Sunday, 20 July 2014 14:08:41 UTC-7, Tyler 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. -- 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.
