He could send an get bounds of vo cursor message to VoiceOver if that causes an 
exception then VoiceOver is not runni or not accepting scripting commands. I 
wonder if he can get the results of ps command. 

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On Jul 31, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Chris H <[email protected]> wrote:

> Could he not use the system voice to speak incoming messages and provide an 
> option to the user?
> 
> On 31/07/2013 16:55, Chris Blouch wrote:
>> I'm trying to help a developer who is writing a chat app. He has a
>> preference to speak incoming messages but it would be even better if
>> that preference was turned on by default if the app detected that
>> voiceover is running. On iOS I found a
>> UIAccessibilityIsVoiceOverRunning() method which returns a boolean and a
>> UIAccessibilityVoiceOverStatusChanged notification but had no luck
>> digging up an OSX equivalent. Does anyone know how to do this so I can
>> pass it along to the developer?
>> 
>> CB
>> 
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