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I am fully sighted, and occasionally use VoiceOver for accessibility testing. I found it a little difficult to use while learning because it wasn't how I was us
by Riseed 11y ago
I am fully sighted, and occasionally use VoiceOver for accessibility testing. I found it a little difficult to use while learning because it wasn't how I was used to navigating, but after a few hours I was fine. When you first enable VoiceOver, you're given the option to take a VoiceOver tutorial which goes through basic keyboard commands and web navigation. After the tutorial,
I found most of the keybindings I needed by searching the text on this page:
http://lab.dotjay.co.uk/notes/voiceover-commands/ http://lab.dotjay.co.uk/notes/voiceover-commands/
I was curious, so I had "Alex" read me some news from http://www.20minutos.es http://www.20minutos.es (first Spanish-language newspaper I found), and he did not have a Spanish accent. Perhaps there's a better voice in a Spanish localization of OS X.
I recommend using VoiceOver with QuickNav on because that makes navigation much easier. VoiceOver also allows you to set keybindings for launching AppleScripts, which you might be able to leverage to remove some of the complexity from learning/using VoiceOver:
http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-os-x/understanding-and-using-voiceovers-commanders http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-os-x/understanding-and-us...
Apple has a handy keybinding reference, which is VoiceOver accessible:
http://help.apple.com/voiceover/vo/en/VOKeysColor_1.html http://help.apple.com/voiceover/vo/en/VOKeysColor_1.html
Applevis is a great community, and so far I've found an answer to all of my other questions by searching their forums: http://www.applevis.com http://www.applevis.com