The lag when switching apps only gets worse if you choose a different voice, and it's the one single drawback to Activities, which is otherwise an extremely powerful way to use VO. I have, now, two activities; the normal one, which I use for everything except messaging clients. I use AIM instead of Messages, as I was having problems getting messages to read, and only use AIM and SKype regularly--who needs more than two IM clients? sheesh. So, for these two apps, I use Alex, who is slightly louder than Fred for some reason. I slow him down a bit, as Fred can speak very quickly and I can still understand him, but other voices this is not so much true. I turn off all the elements of cursor tracking (There is no way to just turn cursor tracking off, except with a manual keystroke, but you *CAN* go through and uncheck all the boxes that say "VoiceOver cursor follows …" whatever, same beastie in the end.. Then, I park my message client's VO cursors in the HTML content window (leaving the insertion pointer in the edit boxes). It sounds complicated but once it's all set up it's just a few keystrokes.
This is just one way to use Activities. I've written to accessibil...@apple.com to suggest at least one or two others; activities which could come "preset," with VO, but which might really help when using a new app for the first time or whatever. That lag, though, I think is just a processor hard limit, and will be better or worse depending on how much RAM you have. Don't let this lag dissuade you from using Activities to customize VO and make it even more flexible than it already is., • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- 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.
