Hi there! I got these instructions from Nic and thought they might help! Hello Colin
To make this easier, you can set up events for Adium for specific sound sets. This means that you can technically enable various different events for sound sets, so if you like the iChat sounds, for example, you can switch to iChat when creating another notification preset. Obviously, you are not required to select different sounds, so if you want, you can simply leave that alone and simply use it for an easy switch of spoken events. To find the Events preferences, hit Command-Comma to go into Preferences, then interact with the Toolbar. Next, move to the events button and hit VO-Space to select it. In some cases in Adium, you are not thrown out of the toolbar as you should be,so simply stop interacting and move right with the VoiceOver keys to focus on the events table. If you just want to use the "Default notifications" you can leave the pop up alone which governs what notifications you are currently using. This allows for a high degree of customisation, allowing you to include extras should you wish to download them. It is also worth noting that it appears that you can save as many configurations as you would like to save. If you want to assign an event to a current notification, select the "Events" table, then interact with it. Now, simply move down with either VO-Down or down arrow on its own to move through the table, and when you see an notification you would like to assign an event to, simply stop interacting with the table, then VO-right until you reach the "Add" button and hit VO-Space. To see what events are currently assigned to a notification, simply move to the third column right next to the name of the notification. If you are not interacting, VoiceOver will automatically read all the columns in a row. In this case, if you want to expand a notification to remove one or more of its events, you can either use VO-Backslash to expand it or simply use the right arrow key which performs the same action. When expanding a notification, simply move to the event you would like to edit or remove, stop interacting if you are, and VO-right to either the "Edit" or "Remove" buttons. Editing obviously lets you recreate the event as you see fit. Adding events is also relatively simply. You simply hit the "Add" button after selecting the notification you would like to add an event to, then select the type of event such as "Speak event." When selecting the different pop up choices, the options will change to reflect your selection. In the case of "Speak event," options to select exactly what is spoken such as name and time appear, including whether or not to use a custom speech rate and pitch as well as voice. If you uncheck the custom checkboxes, it will obey the options set under System Preferences in the Speech category. Additionally, you may also switch off Cursor Tracking with VO-Shift-F3. In this case, you obviously do not need these events in case you want to read them as they come in at your own leisure. Switching off Cursor Tracking is actually very handy, as the keyboard focus doesn't move the VoiceOver cursor. This enables you to read what you have written using the arrow keys only, and quickly read incoming information in any application as soon as it comes in by simply leaving the VoiceOver cursor in the preferred area. This is handy in Applications like Skype as well, particularly Skype 5.1. When you interact with the HTML content area, which VoiceOver reports as "unknown," you are primarily always put at the top of the chat. You can use a command like FN-Shift-VO-End to get to the bottom and FN-Shift--VO-Home to get to the top, though primarily you may be able to ditch the Shift key in favour of only using FN-VO home and end. I hope this helps. I wanted to provide the information about the events so that it might make it a bit easier and make it so that you have to move around less within Adium. Regards, Nic hth Colin On 15 Sep 2011, at 07:19, Rachel magario wrote: > thanks, goign to try. > On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: > >> Hey, interesting! I just downloaded growl first about a week ago and then >> the stable version of adium. It does this out of the box for me. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Rachel magario wrote: >> >>> Cool, mine does that, just the sound, it drives me crazy. how do I config >>> to make it read the way you don't want? >>> Sweet! >>> Rachel >>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Adium standard reads incomng messages to me via growl. I dont like this, i >>>> just want adium to play a sound instead. However I would like adium to >>>> announce to me when people sign on or off. 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