Hello Krister, This is exactly what I plan to do. :) Well, or look at how to do it, anyway, and I hope to devote more time to this unless someone else is going to look at it. But it doesn't look that way.
Keep in mind that speech just changes the way the application displays messages, but it does not change them. I'm not sure how to make Speech do more than speak just yet, as I'm not exactly sure if VoiceOver can even see the Growl notifications when using other display styles. I don't even believe VoiceOVer can, currently. Perhaps the ability to assign a hotkey might be in order, and given the language Growl uses, that should be possible. I am not quite certain on Growl's limitations, although I would assume that, even though there is no visuals to click it may still be possible to make Growl perform the action anyway. As for changing the message you get, that isn't going to happen as they are application-specific and not optimized for the style you are using. I'm not sure how much time I'll get, or even if I'll be able to get further with this. Hopefully, someone can pick up this project and take another, much closer and thorough look than I can at the moment. Growl is certainly very complex and requires some time. Regards, Nic On Oct 3, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > the main disadvantage with having Growl set to speech is that when a message > comes that requires interaction, such as a growl update or an added or > removed file from dropbox, you can't interact with the message, or can you? > if something should be done about the speech style, it would be the > possibility to interact with messages that require interaction, a queue of > spoken events so that not everything is spoken at once and a possibility to > silence the speech with a key. > /Krister > 3 okt 2010 kl. 10.19 skrev Nicolai Svendsen: > >> Hello Rafaela! >> >> Growl is very much accessible. Simply switch the display style to speech and >> you're good to go. You can do this from with in System Preferences>Growl. >> >> The way Growl handles speech is slightly odd, though, as it speaks >> everything at once. That means that, if you get Skype chats and three to >> four people typing at once, it will announce all of this as soon as it >> happens. This means that occasionally, more events will speak at the same >> time. Growl is highly customizable, however, so you can change which events >> you want to speak for applications that implement Growl. Skype doesn't >> really need Growl, though, as Skype supports its own application events >> except automatically speaking chats. >> >> I'm currently looking at the source for Growl, so any suggestions for the >> Speech style would be welcome. I took it upon myself to look at this >> development, as not a lot of people besides visually impaired users utilize >> this style and no one seemed interested to develop it much further. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> On Oct 3, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Recently in some discutions on this list I have herd a mention of growl, I >>> do have it installed on my mac but it interferes with skype when a new >>> message appears, a growl dialog will pop up and won't let me read for some >>> seconds. I would like to know what exactly is growl for, and if it is >>> useful and accessible to us, or if it is only a bother. >>> thanks very much and any answer is appreciated, >>> Rafaela >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
