Why not call the accessibility hot line, or email accessibil...@apple.com
to let them know of what's up? also if you have a free dev account you can set up the bug yourself at bugreport.apple.com Take care and I'll have to test weather this happens. Tc.test > On Jun 17, 2014, at 23:10, Ben J Bloomgren <bbloomg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hello List, > > I had thought that this bug was a setting, but upon absolutely scouring the > Voiceover utility and Mavericks' System Preferences, I'm discovering that > it's a very cool, but very annoying bug. > > Before I go any further, I'm using OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks on a Mid 2010 White > Polycarbon stock Macbook. When I'm typing text, be it in Text Edit, iWorks > Pages, Male, Safari, OSX dialog boxes, etc., with key echo set to words, it > speaks the text which I've just typed even though I have not pressed the > spacebar or a punctuation mark which would invoke the key echo. There's about > a one second to a second and a half delay between the key press and VO > speaking, and when I'm typing words, numbers, letters and numbers or > whatever. It does not matter where in the OS I am or with which voice I'm > using. I deal frequently with foreign languages, and it does it with those > voices, in those keyboard layouts and in those languages. it doesn't matter > whether it's Alex, Fiona, Ava, Allison, Aleksandros, Melina, Tingting or > what. It does it everywhere. If I'm typing the word "hello" for example, if I > pause after typing h, VO will say "h." After the e, it'll say "he." After > both l's, it'll say "h > ell." After the o, it'll say hello. The same is true for sets of numbers. I > type a 5 and pause, and it says "5." Type a 0 thereafter, it'll say "50." > > I'm not normally a thorough person, and I don't prefer to be such for various > quirky reasons. I have literally looked through every tab and option in the > Voiceover utility and OSX's System Preferences. The only thing I haven't done > is to read the bloomin' VO user's guide. This only happens when the key echo > is set to words under VO+v. A friend of mine who is thrice as thorough as I > has also scoured the system prefs and VO utility, and he's come up empty too! > If there are any Apple developers up here with access to the developers' bug > reporter, please submit this as a bug to Apple on my behalf. It's something > I've gotten used to and kind a like in a strange way, but it needs to be > rectified so that blind and VI businessmen don't get outed when they type > financial or other confidential data into their Macs. > > Thanks, > > Ben > <--- 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> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
