Hi
I'm not sure this is the only enhancement I'd like to see in VO,
but I agree 100% with you on this one. I loved that ability in
Outspoken. You could name a hotspot and give it a key combination,
though VO's implementation of hotspots would need some work before
you could use it the way you could use it in Outspoken. For
instance, at the moment the hotspot saves the item at the voiceover
cursor location. If you can't get to the control with VO, or VO
can't see it for any other reason, this wouldn't help at all right
now. The answer to that is pretty simple: implement mouse hotspots.
Another feature I'd like to see in VO is the ability to redefine
all key commands, VO key and otherwise. I don't personally need to
redefine them, but the current VO keys do not work with any non-
latin keyboard layouts and this is a problem for many. I'd also
like to see hotkeys to switch to voices in a predefined list--i.e.
you define preset voices and switch to them with a key. This would
be very useful for situations where you need to switch back and
fourth between languages. Finally, I'd like to see Apple lift the
limits on speech rates in both the Voiceover utility and in System
prefs. There's no need to attempt to limit us to the slower rates
when the voices can clearly go much faster.
On Jan 21, 2009, at 05:35, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
The only, and i repeat the *only* feature i would like to see in
Voiceover is some development of a feature already present in VO.
Back in the Outspoken days, you could mark hot spots on the screen
and give them names, and then you could navigate to them using
that name. In VO there's a similar concept, only you can't give
hot spots a name only a number and the hot spots aren't saved on a
per application basis, in fact they are not saved. That's too bad
because that feature in combination with the ability to move the
mouse in smallish increments would be very helpful in places where
you can't access a control or graphic or what have you in any
other way.
/Krister
21 jan 2009 kl. 05.20 skrev Sara:
I wish there was a feature to turn off speech and just have
braille and no I don't mean just turning down the volume. smile
I'd also like to see braille able to not follow the cursor so I
could read while somebody was typing.
I also get frustrated when I command tab back into pages or
another word processor, that VO insists on reading my whole
document to me instead of just the line I am on or even nothing.
I totally agree we need app specific settings.
I think the knowing when and when not to interact might be
difficult as how would VO know when you need to interact or not?
I think this kind of thing can be found out by trial and error.
What I really wish somebody would do is write VO-specific
documentation for Apple software like iWork or iLife so people
would know what to do if they can't just click everywhere.
Well, that's it for now.
Sara
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