Sounds like the DVD controller might be popping up. Triple click the touch pad with fingers to mute VoiceOver. If you have a braille keyboard than you can still read that while watching your video. Also, if you do not touch the touch pad the controller should not pop up.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 23, 2013, at 7:05 PM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd rather not do that, as sometimes I have things from other apps which pop > up on the screen that I need to be able to know about fairly quickly. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Maria & Joe Chapman > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: Extremely irritating problem when playing DVD's. > > 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. > > > -- > 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.
