I too am noticing exactly the same behavior that you are describing Tim. With me, it's absoutely consistant.
Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! > On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I’ve noticed a couple of bugs with VoiceOver and AppleScript dialog boxes > since upgrading to Yosemite, and am interested whether anyone else has > noticed the same thing. > > First, VoiceOver sometimes does not announce that the dialog box has > appeared. It used to be that a system sound would indicate that the dialog > box has appeared, and VoiceOver would then read the title and message of the > dialog. Now, there is no system sound and VoiceOver does not announce the > title or message, at least not for the first dialog. If the script has a > number of dialogs, VoiceOver will announce the second and subsequent dialogs, > but not the first. However, this bug appears to be inconsistent and sometimes > doesn’t appear. One work around would be for me to re-write the scripts to > specifically tell VoiceOver to announce the dialog, but it would be much > simpler if we had the old behaviour. > > The second is that VoiceOver will not echo the text typed in the dialog. This > might actually be part of a wider problem, as I’ve had issues with VoiceOver > echo in other apps. The text is types, and VoiceOver will read it if you > navigate with the VO keys, but VoiceOver will not echo the characters or > words as they are typed and will not announce the text the cursor passes when > navigating with arrow keys alone. > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
