Ironically, when the JAWS Speech and Sounds Manager came to be back in JAWS 5.0 for Windows, I used to think it was a bug that JAWS *wouldn’t* take a pause while sounds were playing. In JAWS, the speech goes on over top of all sounds. However, as I continued to get used to the JAWS behaviour I realized that it is in fact a huge benefit and efficiency booster. For example, rather than having JAWS say the word “link” every time a link is encountered, it can play a subtle clicking sound. And since that sound doesn’t interrupt the flow of speech, it lets you get through web pages faster. While you can do this with VO, the speech pauses whenever the sounds are played, creating less of a speed improvement.
In any case, it would certainly be nice for this behaviour to be configurable. In fact, there are probably people who don’t like the JAWS approach and prefer the way VoiceOver handles this. So configurability is definitely the key. Cheers. Grant On May 5, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Shaf <shafpa...@gmail.com> wrote: I urge you all to also report this bug to accessibil...@apple.com <mailto:accessibil...@apple.com> so that they may take it seriously and squash it. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: VoiceOver responsive bug Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 12:11:49 +0100 From: Shaf <s...@shafpatel.com> <mailto:s...@shafpatel.com> To: accessibil...@apple.com <mailto:accessibil...@apple.com> I've found a bug with VoiceOver on Mac running latest Yosemite: Whenever you navigate through items with navigation sounds enabled, VoiceOver speech will always wait for the sound to finish and then speak the item focused. This increases the delay a lot. If turning sounds off, VoiceOver is a lot more responsive as it does not need to render sounds before speech. Can we please have an option to play a sound an speak items simultaneously rather than having to wait for a navigation sound to play to here what's in focus? This would be much appreciated. Warm Regards -Shaf -- 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.
