This would be very useful for the likes of Pages, Word etc or any document that is marked up including PDFs I am sure we would all enjoy the benefits of navigating documents in the same way we navigate web pages. Point well raised.
On 29 Jun 2010, at 11:58, DJ Nezumi wrote: > hi chris > just a suggestion but could we have a headings list in VO? > not just on the web but like in jaws you press insert f7 a headings > list comes up. > this will be useful in such things as word etc. i know that VO isn't > jaws of course but i think this would be useful. > i would appriciate it if you could let me know what you think > thanks > Liam > > Chris Moore wrote: >> 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. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
