Not trying to harp on the issue, but if as you say, the status is changing something vo doesn't read, then vo should indicate such.
Plain and simple.As it is now, anyone who uses vo to change the battery status always gets the opposite effect of what they're expecting, and whether or not it's because of a visual item or not, as far as the vo user is concerned, it's reading the wrong thing, and that's defined as a bug in every software manual I've ever read. Apple needs to indicate that what's being changed in this case is *not* what vo is reading. That would satisfy the requirement that vo read what it's supposed to. As it stands now, without sighted assistance, there's no way for a vo-only user to know what is going on, and thus, to them, it's just plain backwards. Until apple adds something to indicate the menu status is not what's being changed, it will remain a bug as far as I'm concerned, and I'll continue reporting it as such each time bug feedback is requested.
On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
Travis, that's the point though, this is not about telling VO what to read, when you change that setting you're merely changing a style of the visual display. It so happens that VO can't read that particular element of the display, but it can read what is in the menus associated with it. So VO is reading the data that it can.This is thusly, also not about VO interpreting anything. It simply cannot read the battery icon as such, as it is an icon. I do agree with you that much of the interpretation that VO does with text can be quite annoying and also a hindrance in some cases as well, but this is a different issue.Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverUsers can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
