[macvoiceover] Re: Another Zoom question

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:04:33 -0700

Hey Ricardo,

Thanks so much for this!  This is very helpful, and thanks for explaining the 
purpose of it.

Cheers,

Russell
On Jan 20, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Russell,
> 
> This is done so sighted people can easily follow along to what a voiceover 
> user is doing on the computer.  To turn this off, go to Vo utilities and 
> under visuals select the Caption Panel tab.  In here, uncheck Show caption 
> panel.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ricardo Walker
> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> www.appletothecore.info
> 
> On Jan 19, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I was at my friend’s yesterday. She is able to get the Zoom settings to stay 
>> now… she just has to press CTRL and touch the mouse to have the zoom jump 
>> back to what she set it at.
>> 
>> She is encountering another odd problem though.  Whenever VoiceOver speaks 
>> anything, for instance, “You are in a table, to interact with this table, 
>> press VO Shift downarrow”, this text is shown on the screen in a box just 
>> above and to the left of the Doc.  The problem is that with the screen 
>> Zoomed, this text actually covers some of the icons on the Doc and hides 
>> them from view.  Is there a way to have this text not show on the screen?  
>> What is the purpose of the VoiceOver output being shown on the screen?  I 
>> hope this is making sense?
>> 
>> Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Russell>
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