1. I agree, scripts are great, and can help speed up many tasks. However, as it is right now, they aren't easy to share. That's a large reason why there aren't more people using them. When I made a move file script for VO, which I could explain how to operate in a single paragraph, I had to spend several more paragraphs trying to explain where the file should be placed, how to move it there, how to enable the keyboard commander, and how to assign the script to a shortcut key. Something is messed up with this process. Not exactly sure what the solution should be, but this needs work. Perhaps some sort of import VO script assistant?
2. busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, makes me angry, angry, angry, angry, angry! If an app is busy, and VO needs to tell me that, I appreciate it. However, I don't need to be reminded at such a rapid rate. How about spacing these messages further apart. How about playing a soft looping audio cue while an app is busy, so that we know, when we hear that sound, the app is still too involved to respond to user input. 3. Hot spots are great, but it would be good if we could have hot spots that were app-specific. For example, I could set a hot spot to the first item in a toolbar in Mail, or to the song name in the LCD area of iTunes. When I later returned to those programs, my hot spots would still be set. 4. VO needs to do a better job at shutting up speech when the user starts typing. VO commands interrupt speech just fine, but, frequently, I'll press an arrow key in a Finder window, and VO will keep on talking. 5. Why is it that, if VO sounds are enabled, the speech often waits until a sound has finished playing before speaking? This doesn't happen on the iPhone. The result is that VO users must decide between the benefits of the audio cues, or the increased responsiveness gained by turning them off. A compromise shouldn't be necessary. The cue and the speech can play at the same time, like what happens on the iPhone. This isn't VoiceOver specifically, but many of us are still waiting for some accessible way to select material for editing in GarageBand, as well as resolutions for the accessibility problems in Logic. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:57 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: VoiceOver 4.0 Well guys now the iPhone 4.0 is out of he way, I think the next thing we should start looking forward to is the next Mac OS. 10.7 (lion maybe?). so I was wondering what features/ improvements you would like implemented into VoiceOver 4.0 and hopefully Apple are listening. i will get the ball rolling ... 1. Intelligent number reading. if voiceover encounters numbers then it can only be set to read them as words or numbers. It would be neat if VoiceOver knew when it was more appropriate to say the numbers as digits or words. For example if the word year appeared after 26 (digits) voiceover knew in this instance to read two six as twenty six years. Another example would be a phone number, if the word tel: or mobile: etc appears before numbers beginning with either + or 0 then to read this out as digits and not some huge number containing millions and thousands. The same could be said for time and measurements etc. 2. In mail it would be more useful if voiceover did not read blank blank on every line on the message viewer if there was nothing in that cell. yes I know you can turn buddies off and move columns around etc to get around this, but really voiceover should only read out what is relevant unless the user wishes to interact with the item in more detail. I think it would also be useful to know if the email has an attachment before opening it. 3. An additional voice. Alex is wonderful and plays great fast and slow, the other voices that come with the mac have been there since the year dot and probably sounded impressive in the 80s or 90s but now I wonder why they are still there. I would like to see an additional voice added to complement Alex, maybe a female voice. This would be useful for reading events as some of us have to purchase an additional voice for this task. 4. Portable document image , when using adium or the weather widget I get infuriated when I hear the graphic image read out as portable document image. Why can't voiceover simply say oh its a picture of the sun or a cloud or its a smiley or sad face etc. 5. The ability to change the speech rate etc within iChat for when you have events set up so new messages or buddies online are read out., as currently the default is very slow and there is no way to speed them up. 6. The ability to remember hotspots and web hot spots (by website basis) after turning the mac off would be very useful. Landmarks has been added to the iPhone, perhaps this could be added to the Mac too? 7. JAWS has the ability through scripting to make unaccessible applications accessible. This is not an ideal long term solution but it is a temporary fix and the ability to share these scripts with others etc would make the likes of Microsoft Office etc accessible until they finally get around to following Apple's accessibility guidelines. 8. A keybaord shortcut to read out battery status when using a laptop. Or even better still, when pressing the battery status button on the side of the macbook, enable voiceover to detect that button press and act on it. 9. When setting password protection on the Mac, VoiceOver is not set as default to alert the user that they need to enter their password. even though VoiceOver might be set as the default to come on once you have successfully logged onto the mac, you have to manually set in the accounts preferences to enable voiceover to run on the login screen. Ok over you to guys now... Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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