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Subject: Re: Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital letters
Hi,
I think that Jonathan is onto something with his response. In regular
documents, in most cases, the headings and such that are in all caps, still
read as the word as opposed to the spelled out cap letters, w
the changes in
speech you hear.
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Subject: Re: Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital l
An interesting parallel discussion in WEB AIM where somebody wanted to make
sure “N” followed by “E” would be pronounced as separate characters.
Who things to notice here:
1. the quoted word in Voice Over (El Capitan ) is spelled out.
2. The technique of inserting pseudo elements with ARIA into
Have you run this by Apple Accessibility?
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On 4/20/2018 7:02 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
OK, I found the culprit. It's the word "MAC"!
Something else odd is also
OK, I found the culprit. It's the word "MAC"!
Something else odd is also going on because on some Web pages I hear
phrases and sometimes entire short sentences spelled out with VO that I
don't get presented that way in Windows, so there's probably some funky
punctuation going on that maybe
Yes exactly. Idiosyncrasy is fitting too.
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On 4/20/2018 7:31 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
I think that Jonathan is onto something with his response. In regular
Hi,
I think that Jonathan is onto something with his response. In regular
documents, in most cases, the headings and such that are in all caps, still
read as the word as opposed to the spelled out cap letters, whereas on the Net
and in some pdf's, it is read out as Steve explains. For the
Sounds like something not easily remedied, perhaps with the
pronunciation dictionary. I do not read ads myself so perhaps not an
issue for me.
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On 4/20/2018 6:41
That might have to do with how CSS is set up for those advertisements. If I
type BIG SAVINGS my VoiceOVer reads the words and not the letters. Though while
typing it it spoke the letters.
I have on occasion put a word into the pronunciation dictionary that did not
handle the speaking of
On 4/19/2018 9:33 PM, E.T. wrote:
I think VO as it stands, handles this properly. I opened a document
in TextEdit and entered several acronyms. VO read them as expected,
for example it reads ACLU as A C L U. There is a setting you might
look at in VO Utility, Verbosity category, Text tab.
I think VO as it stands, handles this properly. I opened a document
in TextEdit and entered several acronyms. VO read them as expected, for
example it reads ACLU as A C L U. There is a setting you might look at
in VO Utility, Verbosity category, Text tab. It's an option that affects
how
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Subject: Re: Question about VoiceOver and words in all capital letters
I stand corrected if I am wrong, but to my knowledge, there are no VO
settings for all caps words. You can change how capital letters are handled,
but I don't recall anything that relates to an all cap
I stand corrected if I am wrong, but to my knowledge, there are no VO
settings for all caps words. You can change how capital letters are handled,
but I don't recall anything that relates to an all caps word.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
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Mac for the Blind
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