hi chris just a suggestion but could we have a headings list in VO? not just on the web but like in jaws you press insert f7 a headings list comes up. this will be useful in such things as word etc. i know that VO isn't jaws of course but i think this would be useful. i would appriciate it if you could let me know what you think thanks Liam
Chris Moore wrote: > Well guys now the iPhone 4.0 is out of he way, I think the next thing we > should start looking forward to is the next Mac OS. 10.7 (lion maybe?). > > so I was wondering what features/ improvements you would like implemented > into VoiceOver 4.0 and hopefully Apple are listening. > > i will get the ball rolling ... > > 1. Intelligent number reading. if voiceover encounters numbers then it > can only be set to read them as words or numbers. It would be neat if > VoiceOver knew when it was more appropriate to say the numbers as digits or > words. For example if the word year appeared after 26 (digits) voiceover > knew in this instance to read two six as twenty six years. Another example > would be a phone number, if the word tel: or mobile: etc appears before > numbers beginning with either + or 0 then to read this out as digits and not > some huge number containing millions and thousands. The same could be said > for time and measurements etc. > > 2. In mail it would be more useful if voiceover did not read blank blank > on every line on the message viewer if there was nothing in that cell. yes I > know you can turn buddies off and move columns around etc to get around this, > but really voiceover should only read out what is relevant unless the user > wishes to interact with the item in more detail. I think it would also be > useful to know if the email has an attachment before opening it. > > 3. An additional voice. Alex is wonderful and plays great fast and slow, > the other voices that come with the mac have been there since the year dot > and probably sounded impressive in the 80s or 90s but now I wonder why they > are still there. I would like to see an additional voice added to complement > Alex, maybe a female voice. This would be useful for reading events as some > of us have to purchase an additional voice for this task. > > 4. Portable document image , when using adium or the weather widget I get > infuriated when I hear the graphic image read out as portable document image. > Why can't voiceover simply say oh its a picture of the sun or a cloud or its > a smiley or sad face etc. > > 5. The ability to change the speech rate etc within iChat for when you > have events set up so new messages or buddies online are read out., as > currently the default is very slow and there is no way to speed them up. > > 6. The ability to remember hotspots and web hot spots (by website basis) > after turning the mac off would be very useful. Landmarks has been added to > the iPhone, perhaps this could be added to the Mac too? > > 7. JAWS has the ability through scripting to make unaccessible > applications accessible. This is not an ideal long term solution but it is a > temporary fix and the ability to share these scripts with others etc would > make the likes of Microsoft Office etc accessible until they finally get > around to following Apple's accessibility guidelines. > > 8. A keybaord shortcut to read out battery status when using a laptop. Or > even better still, when pressing the battery status button on the side of the > macbook, enable voiceover to detect that button press and act on it. > > 9. When setting password protection on the Mac, VoiceOver is not set as > default to alert the user that they need to enter their password. even > though VoiceOver might be set as the default to come on once you have > successfully logged onto the mac, you have to manually set in the accounts > preferences to enable voiceover to run on the login screen. > > Ok over you to guys now... > > Chris -- 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.
