Hi. this wouldn't really bother me as I use a pair of usb headphones and have voice over going through them and other stuff going through the speakers. I just take the headphones off if I'm listening to something like a dvd. Could you not just turn vo off and then turn it back on if you need to navigate?
Just some thoughts. take care. Maria Chapman [email protected] "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 24/03/2013, at 1:34 AM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, guilty as charged, I confess, I've been using a mac now for over a year > and a half, and only now have tried playing a DVD with the native DVD player > app. I absolutely love it! Talk about accessible! Holy Cow! the only > issue is that I have it set where once my DVD starts playing, I hit > command+control+F to enter full screen mode. I do this so that I can see the > movie over the entire screen and not just a small little portion. The issue > is however, when I enter full screen mode, Voiceover keeps saying DVD Player > has new window. It keeps doing that every few seconds. OK, yeah, I could > set up a key map, being this is a mac mini, so I can't do track pad > commander, which would let me toggle muting and unmuting of speech, and sure, > I could even set up an activity for DVD Player to mute speech entirely when > the app is opened, but that defeats the whole purpose, as sometimes I may > want access to the player interface so I can navigate the menu bar etc. So > really, though those options definitely would work, don't get me wrong, they > seem a bit extreme. I just wonder why in the first place, it thinks there is > a new window. No, it isn't doing it every time the screen visually moves > from one frame/scene to another. It seems to be doing it more on a fix > timeframe, like, say... oh?... I dono,... maybe like, every say... 5 seconds > or so. It's really! really! irritating! > > I suppose I could use VLC, but is that really necessary? Has anyone up here > had any luck with the default DVD Player.app native app that comes with OSX? > If so, how'd you get rid of that message? I remember this being an issue > very vaguely in Snowleopard, but I'd think they would have fixed it by now, > in Mountain Lion. If I dont' wanna use this app, nor VLC, are there any > other DVD players I can get that're freeware, that will work? > > I'll wait to hear what you all have to suggest, but I'm wonderring if an > e-mail up to Apple Accessibility may be in order here. > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
