You can configure hotspots per application with activities. As for AppleScript, I've poked around a little and want to learn it more. Someone here posted a script to speak the battery percentage, and I modified it to also say the remaining time. Not bad for not knowing the language! I did note in the new features for Lion that AppleScript now supports interacting with the Cocoa framework. Does this mean we can make neat little scripts with controls and all? I think it does.
- Austin On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > How much have you actually looked at AppleScript? The Voice Over set of > commands just allows you to script the various VoiceOver functions if you > want access to the menus or different graphical widgets an application that > has been available in the Macintosh environment longer then VoiceOver has > been around. I have not seen anybody try to merge the VoiceOver scripting > and the UI element scripting, but doing this should give you the same level > of control that jaws scripting gives to jaws users. > > OK. 90% of the items you listed can or should be able to be done with > Hotspots. I wish hot spots were a bit more configurable: > 1. ability to change some hot spots when application or focus changes. > 2. Ability to have the HotSpot indicate only what changed when tracking is on. > persistence in hotspots when used with AREA regions of a HTML 5 page. > 1. I an not quite sure about Skype chat, since I have only used it a couple > of times, but for most chats turning off cursor tracking (which I would > expect can now be done on a application basis ) should solve most of the > issues. I find the jump command often does the right thing (though not > innumbers) > I don't have any documents with footnotes / endnotes, so I can not truely > discuss these, again since a foot note is a reference to a specific spot in > the text, using the jump-to function might make sense. > > . > > > Jonathan > > So an interesting request to the iWork accessability team would be to have > VO-J jump from formula to table. Though it might even be possible to do this > with an apple script. > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Massimo wrote: > >> In data Giovedì 28 Luglio 2011 17.11.33, Krister Ekstrom >> <[email protected]> ha scritto: >>> Ok, i may be naive to the point of stupidness here, but i hope and pray to >>> God that we will be free from scripting on the VO platform. >> >> As you wish. What I need to have done is automatic reading of incoming >> messages in skype active chat window. Right now, if I want to read incoming >> chat messages, I need to move VO cursor, then I have to interact with the >> HTML content, then I have to move to the last message. In alternative, I >> have to unlink VO cursor from the system focus and still I am not able to >> have incoming messages read automatically. I need to enter commands. I need >> to know if a paragraph contains footnotes and endnotes reference; and, if it >> does and if I want, I should be able to read the note's content without >> leaving the document text area. When in a spreadsheet, I need to define >> monitor cells on a document base; when navigating the cells, I need to know >> if a cell content is a constant or the result of a formula again without >> leaving the spreadsheet itself. JAWS, Orca, NVDA, Windows eyes to are >> scriptable. And it is a very powerfull feature. If you want to use that >> feature, well, it is there; if you do not want, just don't. If something is >> there, you can choose if you want to use it or not; if a feature is not >> available... Yes, I know, you can control VO using Apple Script. But there >> are some limitations and they are major limitations too. >> >> -- >> 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.
