good suggestions. I did send an email to apple accessibility with my 5 suggestions for new voiceover features and enhancements - single key navigation was included. I think it would be best if single letter nevigation wasn't part of quick nav, as this would mean you wouldn't have to enable and disable quick nav each time you enter a form field or need to navigate using the keyboard focus.
On 17/02/2012 22:39, Laura wrote:
I absolutely second the bug quashing. I'm fortunate enough not to have all the ones you mention, but those I do have are frustrating enough. The busy in Safari, in particular, is really making Lion less enjoyable to use, despite many of the other really good features. And I was really disappointed in the iCloud site. I'd also love to see Voiceover work more effectively with iWorks, and Pages especially. It does fine for most individual tasks, but for collaborative work, I've got to go back to Windows, and I can't see that changing until they get Voiceover to do a better job with track changes and comments. And on a similar theme, I'd like a few more customisation options. Something not unlike the options in JAWS, where it can react differently depending on the text attributes it encounters. At the moment, having every single text change spoken is far too much information, but just playing the same sound for all changes sometimes isn't enough. In fact, I'd welcome more customisation across the board, like being able to toggle individual VO sounds on and off, rather than it being an all or nothing deal. Oh, and if single key navigation could turn off automatically when you enter a form field, I think that would be a really big improvement. It was a feature I thought I'd love in Lion, and I don't use it at all. Some of that is that the rest of VO's functionality makes it much less necessary than it was with JAWS, but some of it is that I don't want to go back to what's really just the equivalent of the old JAWS version of forms mode. On 17 Feb 2012, at 00:11, Ricardo Walker wrote:Hi, I honestly hope they spend time working out the Voiceover bugs introduced in Lion. Like the random pitch change with the premium voices, the endless busy in Safari, Voiceover taking a million years to come on at start up, or the reading of those phantom windows on start up. As far as features, I would like to see an OCR feature like found on a couple of windows screen readers. I think this will become standard on all major screen readers. I would also like to see Apple clean up the iCloud site. Its terrible from an accessibility stand point. I would really like to see them add a remote feature for us to help other Mac users like tandem in Jaws. This would be a big help to IT folks, and those just willing to help others trouble shoot on the Mac. Ricardo Walker ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Ashley wrote:Hi all, With the release of mac os 10.8 (mountain lion) nearing, what do you guys think we'll see in voiceover "4.0", the next version of Vo that will be included in this OS? ashClick 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/macvoiceover Users 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/macvoiceoverClick 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/macvoiceover Users 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/macvoiceoverClick 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/macvoiceover Users 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/macvoiceoverClick 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
