I, too, am intrigued by what Applescript might offer in terms of increased accessibility. Bryan S of VoxKeys fame has some interesting things on his website as does the Developer of the FastScripts utility (links below). In fact, I noticed that the developer's notes inside his script to re-enable the Safari 5.1 Downloads hotkey mentions that it finds the correct button by using it's "accessibility description.".
Voxkeys website: www.bryansmart.com Fastscripts website: www.red-sweater.com Bryan On Jul 29, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > You can configure hotspots per application with activities. As for > AppleScript, I've poked around a little and want to learn it more. Someone > here posted a script to speak the battery percentage, and I modified it to > also say the remaining time. Not bad for not knowing the language! I did note > in the new features for Lion that AppleScript now supports interacting with > the Cocoa framework. Does this mean we can make neat little scripts with > controls and all? I think it does. > > On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
