What is the accessability phone number? Presumably you refer to one in the
US. Is there a dedicated accessability phone number for the UK?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <marri...@gmail.com>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: A bug which I had thought was a setting!
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
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