I believe I found a simple solution that does not require scripting, but will require a bit of confirmation. When I set a hotspot to an item in the menu extras area, it appears the hot spot canstill be read with voice over command # where # is the number of the hot spot.
It might be that the hot spot would need to be reinitialized to maintain the location as VoiceOVer seems to not work hard at remembering hotspots. So while TimeMachine is running a backup, go to the menu extras area and open up the TimeMachine menu and click VO-shift-5. Then on occasion do a vo-command-5 and see if it continues to read back the backup status. Best wishes, Jonathan -- 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.