Hi All, I found that some shortcut on the keyboard is responsible for changing the pitch for the general case, which then throws voice over off and starts to exhibit strange behaviour, such as not anouncing every second line, or acting as if it's muted.
This shortcut basically can be triggered while doing normal stuff, typing, switching windows, etc, and is quite inocuous but can affect the experience quite substantially. I would recommend Apple's accessibility team to look at changing the pitch up/down keyboard shortcut, but upon doing Vo-h and checking the command help sound/increase pitch or decrease pitch, I have no command assigned to it. However, each time I get this behaviour, I go to voice over utility/speech/voices/customise language list and go to pitch, the general pitch rate is different from all the other pitches. Readjusting it to fit with the others solves the issue. So, some kind of action or key changes the pitch (I would assume some kind of trackpad commander gesture inadvertendly triggered while doing something else) affects the voice over experience. This is a case of bad design, as there are too many ways to do something which causes this to occur regularly. Just on a side note, the trackpad on the macbook 16 inch is so big, my hands go all over it, so now I keep having to turn the trackpad commander on/off all the time while surfing the web, etc. This again, is a productivity decrease. Have a great weekend, Yuma -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/BD790A29-0C50-436E-8A73-62248F4F4BA4%40gmail.com.
