What's voxkeys? Never heard of it, sounds pretty neet though.
Chris.
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From: "Red.Falcon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: VoiceOver Focus to Status Menu bar [was Re: Sort of bazaar
problem with Voiceover Focus}
Hi there!
I've just been looking around and spotted a Item in documents under VoxKeys
1.0 in there under shortcuts then global is a [say power ] I think it is a
script [it's next to the say time one]
So there might be a script to do what you want already there!
How you get it to work is another question!
I think it should be there because I've never put one there myself!
hth Colin
On 28 Jun 2011, at 20:53, Esther wrote:
Hi Chis,
I haven't had problems with focus navigation to my status menu bar, with
either VO-M-M or Control-F8. If you want to use a keyboard commander
AppleScript for VoiceOver to check battery status, Hai Nguyen supplied one
to the list last year, and Zack posted a reference to this again more
recently a few months ago. Open up the AppleScript Editor and paste this
in. Press Command-R to run it (which will also compile it), then save the
script. In VoiceOver Utility (VO-F8) on the "General" panel (Command-1)
you should have the box for "Allow VoiceOver to be controlled with
AppleScript" checked (VO-Space). Under the "Commanders" (Command-8) go to
the "Keyboard" tab and check the box to "Enable Keyboard Commander". I
used the "Add" key to assign the keyboard key "b". Under the Command, I
used VO-Space to select "Custom Commands" and then "Run AppleScript
Script" in the submenu, then chose the saved AppleScript, which I just
named "Battery Level".
Script is appended below my signature, after the "Cut Here" message.
Cheers,
Esther
---Cut here---
--Author Hai Nguyen Ly November 28, 2010
(* This Apple script will query for the battery status and speak the
output. This script works best when associated with a keyboard shortcut
and used in conjunction with VoiceOver. *)
on isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript()
set isRunning to true
-- is AppleScript enabled on VoiceOver --
tell application "VoiceOver"
try
set x to bounds of vo cursor
on error
set isRunning to false
end try
end tell
return isRunning
end isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript
set maxCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep
\"\\\"MaxCapacity\\\" =\""
set maxLevel to the last word of maxCapacity
set curCapacity to do shell script "ioreg -w0 -l | grep
\"\\\"CurrentCapacity\\\" = \""
set curLevel to the last word of curCapacity
set battPct to round (100 * curLevel / maxLevel)
set output to "Battery " & battPct & "%"
if isVoiceOverRunningWithAppleScript() then
tell application "VoiceOver"
output "Battery " & battPct & "%"
end tell
else
say "Battery " & battPct & "%"
end if
On Jun 28, 2011, at 07:53, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
This is really odd. Even before pulling the 10.6.8 update, I have
noticed that quite often enough, If I press vo+M twice to go to my status
bar, so I can check my battery, half of the time Voiceover won't move
past the first bit of the menu bar. The only way I've found to deal with
that is to restart Voiceover. I've noted this on my macbook, my friend's
macbook and one of my friend's IMacs. So, this must not be a specific
macbook thing just to my unit or configuration.
I do know about ctrl+F8 to go to the status bar area, I just for what
ever odd reason don't prefer using it. I'm honestly not sure if the
problem would still occur using that method or not.
Anyway, let me know if any of you have any idea or have expericed the
same thing. I wonder if an apple script could be made to do like the one
does for saying the time, only have it say the battery. This way I could
just bind it with keyboard commander to a key, and could check the
battery on the fly.
Chris.
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