You know what's weird? The word "secret" was read in say-all and line-by-line reading. When I find code snippets that won't read, they don't appear to work anywhere, not just in Mail or Xcode, but I haven't figured out the rules that cause this to happen. Still, I'm glad it isn't just me. Thanks. On May 2, 2014, at 9:56 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I even tried it in another editor (SubEtha Edit) and it did the same thing. > So VO is getting confused consistently. Apparently it's the triple-bracket > that makes VO silent. The following is a simpler example that also fails: > > This is some [[[secret]]] text. > > I have the word "secret" in triple brackets and VO says nothing when I move > focus there. Text Edit does the same thing. So this appears to be a pretty > low-level bug. > > CB > > On 5/2/14, 9:37 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> That's weird, but it makes sense that VO is confused. I can verify it. I can >> read character by character and it shows up, though. >> >> Teresa >> >> “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. >> Feynman >> >> On May 2, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I've noticed something really odd lately, and I'd like to see if anyone can >>> confirm it. Below is a line of code. You don't need to know Objective-C or >>> anything; the oddity is that VO is skipping text. Specifically, the bit >>> that says [[self solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole] is omitted entirely. I >>> recommend you set punctuation to "most" before continuing. Here's the line: >>> >>> [self setDiscardStack:[[AITCardStack alloc] initWithRoles:@[[[self >>> solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole]]]]; >>> >>> I assume you read that line by line, or all at once in a say-all. Go back >>> and examine it word by word, or character by character, and see if there >>> isn't a part near the end that VO skipped over entirely. I can reproduce >>> this with any voice, and I'm starting to wonder if the brackets are getting >>> VO confused. On the Mac, in-line speech commands are surrounded by double >>> brackets, and I think the speech manager that lets VO talk might be getting >>> mixed up. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> mehg...@icloud.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
