[macvoiceover] Wow I never thought this would work!
- From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:51:05 -0500
Hi all.
I am taking a linguistics course and have been playing around with phonetic
symbols on the computer. I use Windows and won't get into all that as this is a
Mac list.
Well I thought it would be fun to see what Alex made of the symbols so I typed
a few in Windows [no idea how to type them on the Mac] and I put them in a text
edit document.
I fired up text edit and had the feeling it would say 'unknown character' or
something equally useless. Well it didn't. It described the character to me.
One of the ones I typed was a Greek letter omega and it said Greek small letter
omega or something. The other was the schwa symbol which Alex called Latin
small letter schwa or something like that. The only thing that didn't work was
braille; the display showed nothing.
Is there any way I can type these things in unicode with my keyboard and can I
make Alex say things differently if I find the description too long or not
clear?
Can I query VO to ask it the code for the character under the cursor? Can I add
symbols to braille or is that still coming?
I am going to write Apple thanking them for making these symbols accessible to
blind people as I think we should all have fun playing with cool symbols and
some of us need them for school. smile
I have to type more of them and see if there are any VO can't identify.
Rock on Apple!
Sara
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