Nicolai, I only just discovered growl today. I am still learning what a mac can do for the blind. I didn't see a speech option on the control panel configuration for growl.
I haven't figured out how to get it to work with skype either. I do like the fact that it does work nicely with Adium (an all-in-one sms/im client) I wouldn't mind an ability to read irc chats automatically. I am just not sure voiceover can handle that as designed. -Eric On Oct 3, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hello Rafaela! > > Growl is very much accessible. Simply switch the display style to speech and > you're good to go. You can do this from with in System Preferences>Growl. > > The way Growl handles speech is slightly odd, though, as it speaks everything > at once. That means that, if you get Skype chats and three to four people > typing at once, it will announce all of this as soon as it happens. This > means that occasionally, more events will speak at the same time. Growl is > highly customizable, however, so you can change which events you want to > speak for applications that implement Growl. Skype doesn't really need Growl, > though, as Skype supports its own application events except automatically > speaking chats. > > I'm currently looking at the source for Growl, so any suggestions for the > Speech style would be welcome. I took it upon myself to look at this > development, as not a lot of people besides visually impaired users utilize > this style and no one seemed interested to develop it much further. > > Regards, > Nic > On Oct 3, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Recently in some discutions on this list I have herd a mention of growl, I >> do have it installed on my mac but it interferes with skype when a new >> message appears, a growl dialog will pop up and won't let me read for some >> seconds. I would like to know what exactly is growl for, and if it is useful >> and accessible to us, or if it is only a bother. >> thanks very much and any answer is appreciated, >> Rafaela >> >> -- >> 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. > Eric Oyen - N7ZZT Phoenix Arizona Geocode: 33.488462 -112.234926 N33° 29.3077', W112° 14.0956' -- 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.
