Hi Karen and Chris, I assume that Karen is using QuickTime Player 7 because she wants direct access to the A/V control window and also to do AppleScripting controls for things like faster playback listening of podcasts and audiobooks, which you can't do with the current version of QuickTime since Snow Leopard. Either that, or she may have purchased QuickTime Pro for the additional authoring options in an earlier version of Mac OS X.
I've only been using QuickTime Player 7 through AppleScripts/Automator workflows, but I just checked trying to start the "play" button with VoiceOver, and there is a bug with using VO-Space. If I route my mouse cursor to the play button and use VO-Shift-Space to click on "play", then the track will only play for as long as I continue to hold down the VO+Shift key controls. This seems to be one of those instances where you need a "hardware click" to work the controls. If you're set up to turn mouse keys on and off with 5 presses of the Option key, then just toggling mouse keys on and pressing the "i" key when your mouse cursor is focused on the "play" button of QuickTime Player 7 will work. This is my standard work-around for a "hardware click". Alternatively, if you're using the TrackPad, and have routed your mouse cursor to the "Play" button, you can simply double tap on the TrackPad to start playing if TrackPad Commander is off. (Again, somewhat weirdly, I can't naviga te to the play control with TrackPad Commander on and start playing with a double tap.) This is in Snow Leopard, by the way. Once the track is playing, I can toggle on the A/V control window with Command+K and interact with the slider to control speed. For those of you wanting to use QuickTime Player 7, here's the Apple Knowledge Base Article on "Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v.10.6 or Later" that has a download link for Lion users: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3678 Probably obvious that I'm mostly using iTunes to play. You can also use VLC (which also lets you control play speed). Other people are using Cog. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 23, 2012, at 02:24, chris hallsworth wrote: > Can't help you with this one but I am curious. Does the majority of you use > QuickTime or iTunes to play your media? Asking as part of my mac research. > Thanks! > > On 23/01/2012 06:52, 1smart...@cox.net wrote: >> I am having some difficulty with Quick Time 7 and VO. Is anyone here using >> QT-7? Specifically, it appears that, even though I press VO-spacebar on the >> play button, the button does not activate. >> >> Thanks for any input. >> >> Karen <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
