[macvoiceover] Re: Wow I never thought this would work!
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:29:03 -0400
Hi Sara,
You can use the pronunciation editor found in vo prefs to ad symbols and
give them specific pronunciations. There are already some there which you
can change if you like.
We have no way to alter braille at this point.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 9:51 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Wow I never thought this would work!
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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