Hi Gavin!
I hope this will be of some help to you [It was for me]
Colin
Well It would help if I put in the text!
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To make this easier, you can set up events for Adium for specific sound sets.
This means that you can technically enable various different events for sound
sets, so if you like the iChat sounds, for example, you can switch to iChat
when creating another notification preset. Obviously, you are not required to
select different sounds, so if you want, you can simply leave that alone and
simply use it for an easy switch of spoken events.
To find the Events preferences, hit Command-Comma to go into Preferences,
then interact with the Toolbar. Next, move to the events button and hit
VO-Space to select it. In some cases in Adium, you are not thrown out of the
toolbar as you should be,so simply stop interacting and move right with the
VoiceOver keys to focus on the events table.
If you just want to use the Default notifications you can leave the pop up
alone which governs what notifications you are currently using. This allows
for a high degree of customisation, allowing you to include extras should you
wish to download them. It is also worth noting that it appears that you can
save as many configurations as you would like to save.
If you want to assign an event to a current notification, select the Events
table, then interact with it. Now, simply move down with either VO-Down or
down arrow on its own to move through the table, and when you see an
notification you would like to assign an event to, simply stop interacting
with the table, then VO-right until you reach the Add button and hit
VO-Space. To see what events are currently assigned to a notification, simply
move to the third column right next to the name of the notification. If you
are not interacting, VoiceOver will automatically read all the columns in a
row. In this case, if you want to expand a notification to remove one or more
of its events, you can either use VO-Backslash to expand it or simply use the
right arrow key which performs the same action. When expanding a
notification, simply move to the event you would like to edit or remove, stop
interacting if you are, and VO-right to either the Edit or Remove
buttons. Editing obviously lets you recreate the event as you see fit.
Adding events is also relatively simply. You simply hit the Add button
after selecting the notification you would like to add an event to, then
select the type of event such as Speak event. When selecting the different
pop up choices, the options will change to reflect your selection. In the
case of Speak event, options to select exactly what is spoken such as name
and time appear, including whether or not to use a custom speech rate and
pitch as well as voice. If you uncheck the custom checkboxes, it will obey
the options set under System Preferences in the Speech category.
Additionally, you may also switch off Cursor Tracking with VO-Shift-F3. In
this case, you obviously do not need these events in case you want to read
them as they come in at your own leisure. Switching off Cursor Tracking is
actually very handy, as the keyboard focus doesn't move the VoiceOver cursor.
This enables you to read what you have written using the arrow keys only, and
quickly read incoming information in any application as soon as it comes in
by simply leaving the VoiceOver cursor in the preferred area. This is handy
in Applications like Skype as well, particularly Skype 5.1.
When you interact with the HTML content area, which VoiceOver reports as
unknown, you are primarily always put at the top of the chat. You can use a
command like FN-Shift-VO-End to get to the bottom and FN-Shift--VO-Home to
get to the top, though primarily you may be able to ditch the Shift key in
favour of only using FN-VO home and end.
I hope this helps. I wanted to provide the information about the events so
that it might make it a bit easier and make it so that you have to move
around less within Adium.
Regards,
Nic
On 28 Oct 2011, at 21:40, Gavin wrote:
Hi guys, me again.
Has anybody managed to get VoiceOver to speak the names of contacts in
Adium's contacts table. All I hear is, empty, empty, empty when I scroll up
and down. Is it the version of Adium I'm using? Or perhaps the services with
which I'm using it? I have it connected to Facebook and MXit. I've got the
latest Adium version, if that helps.
Regards,
Gavin
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