Hi Sarah, Nic, and Others,
This is an issue with the Status bar icon of third party apps not
being accessible to VoiceOver when developers use the standard APIs,
although Apple's own coding method can show these icons. You can read
a summary of the discussion in the archived post,
"Accessible Status Menu Bar Icons and VoiceOver":
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg09249.html
This question came up on the list once before with an app called
Caffeine, that sounds very much like InsomniaX. Here's the link to
Caffeine:
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
The way around the accessibility issues was to check that Caffeine had
hooks built in so it could be turned on and off with AppleScripts.
That got around having to check a menu in the (invisible to VoiceOver)
status bar icon for commands to turn the app on and off.
You can read the details of how this was done in the archived post,
"Apps with status bar menus that VoiceOver can't get to [was Re:
Caffeine application for the MAC]":
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg06473.html
There are detailed instructions of how to create and compile
AppleScripts for Caffeine at the end of the post. To turn the app on,
you use a 1-line command:
tell application "Caffeine" to turn on for 3600
(where you either give the time in seconds -- 1 hour, in the case here
-- or leave off the "for 3600" to keep it on)
There's a typo in the 1-line AppleScript to turn Caffeine off -- there
shouldn't be an "s" after application. It should read:
tell application "Caffeine" to turn off
If you want to do something similar for InsomniaX, you'd have to
similarly check inside the application bundle to see whether there is
an InsomniaX.sdef file with command definitions that could be used in
an AppleScript.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On May 25, 2010, at 14:03, Sarah Alawami wrote:
except I can't get it working. any elp getting it working wourl be
appreciated. I hear it is not at all accessibal and the dialogues
and autho dialogues are by no neans accessibal. I can't get it to
work anyways.
S
On May 25, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
Hey Sarah,
Thanks. I've always wanted something like this, as I couldn't find
a way to tweak the settings. :)
Regards,
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On May 25, 2010, at 4:09 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Hello. I'm trying to run and install InsomniaX. It looks easy but
I can't get it to work.
This is a utility that will prevent the mac from gong to sleep
while on ac power and you close the lid. Can someone give some
hints. The link you can get the program in info from is at
http://semaja2.net/insomniaxinfo
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks. I can't get voice over ot say anything or to show the
dialogues that are suposed to come up.
Take care.
S
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