Thanks Esther, As always that is excellent information.
Robert Carter ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther <mori...@mac.com> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, Jun 2, 2009 14:55:13 Subject: Re: Monitoring progress with Voice Over > > > > Hi Robert, > > I'm pasting this in from a message I sent in April about setting up > the iPod Nano 4G. It describes where to check for the updating > status when syncing -- this is the player status window of iTunes that > announces which track is currently playing, etc. The main thing is > that the updating information state only gets read when you move onto > this field so hold down the VO keys and alternate moving arrow keys > off and on the sync status information. I haven't checked this > against the latest version of iTunes, but anything that changes is > likely to be a quite minor modification that you can figure out from > the information below. > > <begin excerpt> > There is a status window in iTunes that you can reach by doing a VO-Up > Arrow twice after you stop interacting with the iTunes Settings scroll > area. The first VO-Up Arrow gets announced for me as "Text List View > Switcher" the status window is announced as "LCD scroll area". > You'll need to interact, and you'll also need to move off and on the > fields with VO-arrow keys to get the updated messages. If I VO-down > arrow and VO-up arrow fast, I'll hear "Syncing iPod Do Not Disconnect" > and "Updating <your name's> iPod". This message alternates with a > second message that will tell you the actual files being copies at the > time you sample by name and number. So I could hear the name of an > Audiobook file and a number like copied 71 files of 73. When > everything is done you'll hear "Sync is complete" in this field. The > main thing is that you have to move on and off the fields to get the > updated status. > > The other thing you can check, which is less helpful than the status > window (which, incidentally, is the "Now Playing" window when you are > playing music in iTunes), is the capacity bar scroll area. If you are > in the iTunes Settings Scroll area for your summary settings, VO-Down > Arrow to the Capacity Bar scroll area and interact. This gives you > the amount of space that is used on your Nano, and the values actually > change (in blocky jumps) while your iPod updates if you monitor it. > It's less useful to check things here until your sync is finished. > You can interact and VO-right arrow across to find out the amount of > space allocated to audio, video, other (I think that's contacts and > games and, in our case, the spoken menus), and free space. > <end excerpt> > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jun 1, 2009, at 6:49 AM, Robert Carter wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > When an iPod is syncing with a Mac, is there any way to get > > VoiceOver to speak the progress of the sync? Also, when a CD is > > being burned is there any way to get VoiceOver to speak the progress > > of the burn process? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robert Carter > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > 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 > com~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
