Hi Chris, Yes, it is in VO Utility. The name probably derives from the idea that you'll change VO settings based on whatever "activity" you're doing at any given time, like reading email or editing text. Activities can be switched either automatically, based on current application, or manually. As for a release date, all we know is sometime in July. Best, Zack. On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> When you say activities feature, is that something that's gonna be in my > Voiceover Utility, etc. I know with Lion not being out yet most people are > on NDA, so I'm obviously not going to ask for great detail, but generally, I > guess I'm not understanding why it's called activities. Sounds like it does > more than just individualized VO settings. > > Speaking a which, do we yet know when Lion's coming out exactly, aside from > this coming July? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:29 PM > Subject: Re: Individualized Setting/Preferences > > > Hi Chris, > You're in luck. Lion is out soon, and the new "Activities" feature allows > you to do exactly this. > Best, > Zack. > On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> I was just thinking... I don't recall there being a way to make this >> happen, but it would be absolutely awesome! if Apple would, provided there >> isn't already a long roundabout way to do this, give us the option in >> voiceover to have individualized settings rather than just global settings. >> This way, say normally we wanted our speech at say 60% on the rate, but then >> in Mail and Safari only, say, we wanted the rate to be 45%. This way, any >> time we'd switch to either Mail, or Safari, our speech would change and all >> our app specific settings would get loaded. >> >> JAWS has been able sense Kingdom come to do this, and so has Window-Eyes, to >> the best of my knowledge. So, who's to say this would be hard to implement >> into Voiceover? Am I missing something here? Can we either already do >> this, or somehow undocumentedly copy some pref files around and jerry-rigg >> this to work? >> >> 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. >> > > -- > 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.
