I have three enhancements that I'd like to see in voiceover with the release of 10.7. I don't expect VO to be covered in that much detail during this particular event, we'll probably read about the VO changes on the web site as the release gets closer.
I'd like to see them make it possible to access the status menu icons of other applications. Dropbox is one example of an application that puts an icon in this menu that can't be accessed with voiceover. We can only access the default icons like the clock, battery status, etc. Also, I haven't yet seen a way to navigate tables within word documents or pdf files. If I understand things correctly, wasn't it very difficult to read tables in web pages until the release of 10.6? Maybe this can be done for other documents as well. Finally, I'd really like to see the possibility of setting different preferences for each application. For example, I might want a different level of verbosity in a particular application. On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, I would really love to see other voices in other languages and that they ditched those trinoids, good news, bad news, boing and other nonsence voices that belonged in the days when they didn't really know what to do with synthetic speech, because they hadn't a screen reader then. Nowadays, there is Voiceover so then other voices in other languages are more appropriate, especially since the screen reader itself is actually localized into other languages than english. Other than that, i would love to see a better translation to Swedish of Voiceover and the feature that the old Outspoken had, namely theability to know where the cursor was, by hearing a beep when you spell a word, so that if you had the word "browser" for example and you are in the middle of the word, just between the "w" and "s", you could hear "b r o w beep s e r" and if you then went one step to the right with the cursor, it'd go "b r o w s beep e r" and so on. Permanent hot spots savable on a per application basis would also be nice. And i totally agree with more accessibility of the ILife suite would be wonderful. /Krister 15 okt 2010 kl. 19.25 skrev Daniel Rowe: > Hi all. > > As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next > Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of > possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X 10.7. > So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS, either > generally or VoiceOver specific? > > Personally, I'd like to see a female voice that is as good as Alex, and to > have voices in other languages even if it meant licensing them from nuance as > they have done in iOS. > Accessibility improvements to garage band would be welcome, as well as making > iWeb accessible. > The last major thing I can think of is to finally fix the issue of VO > randomly resetting itself. > > I'm sure they'll come up with a load of things I haven't even thought of. So > what do you all think? > > Dannie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
