How does one ask VoiceOver for the current time and is it possible to see
the title of the focused window?
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Annie Skov Nielsen
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:47 PM
To:
You can do vo mm and then arrow over to the right until you hear the time. the
other way involves the use of apple script, which I don't know if you have that
enabled on your mac and I also don't know if this works in mountain lion. If
you have speakable items turned on, you can hold down
To obtain the current time, press Control, option, M twice quickly. And then
use control option left and right arrow to find the time.
To find the current title of the window, press control option F2. If however
you are on a MacBook, it may be necessary to press FN, Control, option, F2, to
hear
A very nice explination, thanks been using a mac book pro for a year and I
did not know those key strokes again thanks for the information.
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Babcock
Sent: Thursday,
As stated, you can use a script for this. I have mine set to option-t.
1. Open the vo utility with vo-f8 (you may need to add function to that).
2. Select the general category from the table, then find and check the allow
Voiceover to be controlled by Apple scripts checkbox.
3. Back in the table,
Thank you very much for all of your help, this was what I was looking for.
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:11 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
Hi Michael and Alex. If he uses a MacBook, he doesn't have to use the function
keys to perform Voiceover commands if he follows these steps:
1. Open System Preferences.
2. Go to keyboard. Make sure that the keyboard tab is selected.
3. Check the checkbox that says Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as
Thanks, I neglected to recall where to change the settings
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On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bigbigshawn@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Michael and Alex. If he uses a MacBook, he doesn't have to use the
function keys
Hi,
Just to add, one can toggle the keyboard commander on/off with VO shift K. And
to answer the question about reading the title of the window in which voiceover
is currently focused, its VO F2.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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