Thank you very much for all of your help, this was what I was looking for.
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: asking VoiceOver for the current time and date as well as title of the window As stated, you can use a script for this. I have mine set to option-t. 1. Open the vo utility with vo-f8 (you may need to add function to that). 2. Select the general category from the table, then find and check the "allow Voiceover to be controlled by Apple scripts" checkbox. 3. Back in the table, select commanders, then choose keyboard commander from the list of tabs. 4. Enable this commander and choose which option key you want to use. 5. Go to the assign commands button, I think that's it anyway, and you should see that t is already assigned to run the time/date script. If not, go to add, type t, then find the command menu button and activate it. Choose "run script" and select the script you want. There are other useful scripts here, or you can find or write your very own. On Jan 10, 2013, at 6:54 PM, cait furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can do vo mm and then arrow over to the right until you hear the time. the other way involves the use of apple script, which I don't know if you have that enabled on your mac and I also don't know if this works in mountain lion. If you have speakable items turned on, you can hold down escape or whatever key you've designated and ask the mac what time it is. vo f2 will tell you the title of the current window. > hth, > Caitlyn > > On 2013-01-10, at 6:50 PM, "Reinhard Stebner" <raydar11...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> How does one ask VoiceOver for the current time and is it possible to see >> the title of the focused window? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Annie Skov Nielsen >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:47 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Caliber on the Mac >> >> Hi Mary. >> >> I would be so happy if calibre on the mac could be a little more accessible. >> I would be glad, if you would try contacting the developer. It is a bit >> complicated. I tried a while ago, it was a little difficult to go into the >> contact forum. They did not seem very interested to our needs. But I hope if >> more blind people contacted them, and in details are explayning our needs >> and problems, it would maybe help. >> >> When your calibre has been setup, do you still need sighted assistance, or >> is everything working automatically. >> >> I have also been looking at the possibility to make some automator scripts, >> that can convert from mobi and htmlz to epub, but I can not find much >> information about how to make such scripts. >> >> I know that there has been made some scripts that can convert from rtf to >> epub, so it ought to be possible to make some scripts that can convert from >> mobi and htmlz. >> Best regards Annie. >> Best regards Annie. >> Den Jan 1, 2013 kl. 4:48 AM skrev Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Caliber is a downloadable free ebook management software. The nice thing >> you can do with this application and the right plugins is to take the drm >> off of books you have purchased from B&& or Amazon so that you can use these >> books on whatever device you want. This use to require all kinds of messing >> about in the terminal, a process not for the faint of heart or the non-techy >> types, of whom I am one. Unfortunately, the process with the application and >> the plugins seems totally inaccessible. I've tried with the keyboard. I've >> tried turning off trackpad commander and just moving my finger around on the >> magic track pad to see if anything useful showed up. It didn't. So I wonder >> if anybody has tried contacting the developer of the app regarding >> accessibility. I know it is a volunteer effort. And I am lucky, because I >> have a sighted spouse, who can be talked in to doing this process for me, so >> that I can access Kindle books now on my iDevices, complete with tables of >> contents, links etc. But not everybody has that luxury. Besides, I'd prefer >> to not need this help. I'm willing to join the effort to convince the dev to >> make it accessible, but if others have tried and been told to buzz off, then >> that would be good to know as well. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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