Hi Mary, Good suggestions, but remember that some of these already are more or less found in VoiceOver:
•Change speech rate/volume/pitch/intonation/language on the fly by holding down control-option-command and select what you would like to change with the left/right arrow, and change value with up/down arrow. •Read paragraph by paragraph with control-option-shift-page down or up. Similar commands for line, sentence etc etc. You'll find all these by pressing control-option-H for VoiceOver help menu and go into the Commands menu and the Text submenu found there. YOu can also assign these to NumPad Commander or other Commanders to avoid keystrokes. •When using Group mode instead of dom mode for reading web pages, text will most often be presented paragraph by paragraph in bulks. •In the Keyboard panel of the System Prefs, you'll find the ability to ad shortcuts individually for each applications. The shortcuts will show up together with the menu item in the app you have assign such keystrokes for. One specific iOS feature I would like to see in MacOSX is ducking when VoiceOver is speaking, so that other sound material won't get in the way for VO. App specific HOt Spots would be great, so that HOt Spots could act like Web Spots currently does for individual web pages. I guess we should send this thread to Apple accessibility when we have shared more thoughts here. It will be a whole lot of interesting reading for them, right? Smile. Take care, JOhn André On 27. juni 2010, at 19.27, Mary Otten wrote: > I would love to see application specific settings and also an easy way to > adjust speech rate on the fly. > Another thing I would like is a way to skim through text while continuous > reading is in progress. Move by line is something the screen readers have had > for a while now, and it is very convenient. Move by paragraph would also be > nice. > > And how about getting rid of the duplicate commands for voice over where an > Mac os X command exists, and give us a list of such commands, organized by > application, for the applications included with the os. Doing that would mean > a learning curve for people who have gotten use to voiceover commands, > because those are what you get in the introductory material. but in the end, > more keyboard commands would be freed up for assignment to actions where no > keyboard command exists within the os. > > I would appreciate application-specific settings for keyboard commander, > because the number of easily accessed keystrokes is not all that many. It > could be an option, global versus local, so folks who didn't want that could > assign keystrokes to work across all applications if they wanted. And easy > script sharing. > > I would also like to see intelligent language switching implemented along > with the language rotor, so that if there is more than one language on a > page, the voice will switch if you have this option turned on. > I don't yet have a braille display, but I understand that at present, > voiceover spells out the full names of controls, kind of like speech box mode > for JAWS. that is wasteful of valuable display real estata, and if this is > indeed what happens, I think they should do something about it. > > Mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
