=Hello,
I was listening to the communication about Voiceover issues on Saturday and
somebody complained about the difficulty of using VO-command-space to get to
actions on the notifications. OF course one can always add commanders, but
these end up being limited in the keys you can use.
I know that with Automator one can create "quick actions" and then assign
keyboard commands to them in system preferences
So I fired up the automator tool, created a new quick action automation with
just a do AppleScript in it.
I then added in the AppleScript area the following code:
on run
tell application "VoiceOver"
tell commander
perform command "actions"
end tell
end tell
end run
Editor and verifying that this caused the co-command-space functionality.
I pressed compile, pressed the run button and it appeared to work.
So, I saved it as "voiceover actions".
I set up a keyboard shortcut in system preferences keyboard shortcuts services
Now to test it out…
First issue: in notification center, the keystroke just beeped at me. (so
probably a limitation of Notification not accepting keyboard input.
1Then just to make sure my general logic worked, I tried it in text edit.
Second issue: Got an error:
The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “VoiceOver got an error:
"actions" doesn’t understand the “perform command” message.”
Which is quite strange because it should have been sending the "perform
command" message to commander with an argument of "actions".
If anybody wants to play with this code and see if they can get better results
I would be interested.
Jonathan
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
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