Activities have some great potential. You can make any VoiceOver settings application specific. For example, I created a new activity called Mail,. I enabled hot spots, and checked Mail in the applications. I then quit the VO utility and went to Mail. This uses the new mail view in Lion, but you can do the same for the old. I went to the mailboxes table but did not interact with it, and hit Vo-shift-1 to set a hot spot there. I then went to the message column and interacted. I went over to the messages table and without interacting, hit Vo-shift-2 to set a second hot spot. I then went over to the message content and did the same with Vo-shift-3. Now I have three hot spots specific to mail that take me to three common areas in the main window accessible with vo-1, vo-2, and vo-3. Nice and simple.
It always confused me before that you could only have ten hot spots for the whole system, and I didn't use them much. Now activities allow for much greater fine-tuning of the VoiceOver experience. I have a feeling some shortcuts already exist to do these things, but if nothing else it demonstrates a new and powerful way to use hot spots and activities to make the new mail program a little easier. I wonder if APple will begin making application specific activities of their own in the future which come with VoiceOver. They enrich the experience. - Austin PS: I also made a Terminal activity without quick nav, to allow full use of the arrows. I also set the punctuation level to most, perfect for picking out Unix weirdness. WOnderful! -- 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.
