How much have you actually looked at AppleScript? The Voice Over set of commands just allows you to script the various VoiceOver functions if you want access to the menus or different graphical widgets an application that has been available in the Macintosh environment longer then VoiceOver has been around. I have not seen anybody try to merge the VoiceOver scripting and the UI element scripting, but doing this should give you the same level of control that jaws scripting gives to jaws users.
OK. 90% of the items you listed can or should be able to be done with Hotspots. I wish hot spots were a bit more configurable: 1. ability to change some hot spots when application or focus changes. 2. Ability to have the HotSpot indicate only what changed when tracking is on. persistence in hotspots when used with AREA regions of a HTML 5 page. 1. I an not quite sure about Skype chat, since I have only used it a couple of times, but for most chats turning off cursor tracking (which I would expect can now be done on a application basis ) should solve most of the issues. I find the jump command often does the right thing (though not innumbers) I don't have any documents with footnotes / endnotes, so I can not truely discuss these, again since a foot note is a reference to a specific spot in the text, using the jump-to function might make sense. . Jonathan So an interesting request to the iWork accessability team would be to have VO-J jump from formula to table. Though it might even be possible to do this with an apple script. On Jul 28, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Massimo wrote: > In data Giovedì 28 Luglio 2011 17.11.33, Krister Ekstrom > <kris...@kristersplace.com> ha scritto: >> Ok, i may be naive to the point of stupidness here, but i hope and pray to >> God that we will be free from scripting on the VO platform. > > As you wish. What I need to have done is automatic reading of incoming > messages in skype active chat window. Right now, if I want to read incoming > chat messages, I need to move VO cursor, then I have to interact with the > HTML content, then I have to move to the last message. In alternative, I have > to unlink VO cursor from the system focus and still I am not able to have > incoming messages read automatically. I need to enter commands. I need to > know if a paragraph contains footnotes and endnotes reference; and, if it > does and if I want, I should be able to read the note's content without > leaving the document text area. When in a spreadsheet, I need to define > monitor cells on a document base; when navigating the cells, I need to know > if a cell content is a constant or the result of a formula again without > leaving the spreadsheet itself. JAWS, Orca, NVDA, Windows eyes to are > scriptable. And it is a very powerfull feature. If you want to use that > feature, well, it is there; if you do not want, just don't. If something is > there, you can choose if you want to use it or not; if a feature is not > available... Yes, I know, you can control VO using Apple Script. But there > are some limitations and they are major limitations too. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
