

Click to select or ‘Tab’ and press the ‘Spacebar’ to check ‘Announce when an application requires your attention’ to have your Mac speak the text in dialogue boxes.To hear the selected voice click on the ‘Play’ button or press the ‘Tab’ key to select and press the ‘Spacebar’.To have the computer speak the dialogue immediately select a value of ‘0’ for a 5 second delay select ‘5’. Click on or use the ‘Tab’ key to select ‘Delay’ and use the left and right arrow keys to select your speed.Note: You can edit the list of phrases and add your own, to do so choose 'Edit phrase list' from the list in the pop-up menu next to 'Speak the phrase:'.Click to select or ‘Tab’ to ‘Phrase:’ use the up and down arrow keys and press the ‘Space Bar’ or click to select a phrase.Tab to ‘Set Alert Options’ and press Space Bar or click to select.Tab to ‘Announce when alerts are displayed’ press Space Bar or click to select.

You can also have the alert speech start with a phrase, to do this:.Under the ‘Voice’ heading click on a voice to select or press ‘Tab’ until the voice list is highlighted and use the up and down arrows to select a voice.Click to select or ‘Tab’ to highlight ‘Text to Speech’ and then ‘Tab’ to select ‘System Voice’.Click on the ‘Speech’ icon or press ‘Tab’ repeatedly (you might need to press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F7’ first) to cycle through the icons until the ‘Speech’ icon is selected as shown in Fig 5 and then press the ‘Spacebar’.Click on ‘Preferences’ or press the down arrow to highlight ‘Preferences’ and then press ‘Enter’.Make sure you are in ‘Finder’ press ‘Apple’ + ‘Tab’ if necessary to cycle through open applications until you return to ‘Finder’.To find additional VoiceOver learning materials, including a ‘VoiceOver Getting Started’ manual, podcasts, and other items, go to the VoiceOver downloads page. You can navigate among the categories using keyboard shortcuts. It displays both the Braille dots being sent to the dedicated Braille display and an English translation, sighted instructors, parents, or co-workers can read its contents with minimal disturbance to the non-sighted user.Ĭlick to select or arrow down to a category, Fig 4.

The Braille Panel behaves like a standard 40-cell display. If you don’t have a USB Braille display, you can use the onscreen visual Braille panel that VoiceOver provides. VoiceOver automatically recognises the model in use and programs the keys - including "wiz wheels," scrollers, router keys, and buttons - to best suit each model’s characteristics. Note: VoiceOver includes Braille support. The VoiceOver Utility presents a list of nine categories, from General to Braille, Fig 4.

Click on ‘System Preferences.’ as shown in Fig 1 or press the down arrow key to highlight it and then press ‘Enter’.Click on the ‘Apple’ menu or press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F2’.Make sure you are in ‘Finder’ press ‘Apple’ + ‘Tab’ if necessary to cycle through open applications until you return to ‘Finder ’.
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Instructions on how to activate VoiceOver are explained below.
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Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard includes a thoroughly updated release of VoiceOver that builds on the advanced features in Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. Mac OS X version 10.4 also known as ‘Tiger’ is the first version of the Mac OS to include a fully integrated screen reader. Note: For keyboard access make sure ‘Full keyboard access’ is turned on you can turn it on or off by pressing ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F1’ at any time. Note: Mac key convention: ‘Ctrl’ is used for ‘Control’, ‘Apple’ is used for ‘Command’ and ‘Alt’ is used for the ‘Option’ key. This section tells you about the different ways you can make your computer talk in OS X Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Making your computer talk
