James Jolley’s Interactive Fiction Blog

September 23, 2007

An Accessibility hint for blind Zoom users

Filed under: Zoom — James Jolley @ 7:35 am

For those users who are relying on VoiceOver to access zoom, a useful thing to try is to disable cursor tracking with Control, Option, Shift F3.
This will allow you to keep the cursor where it is without having to constantly scroll up to find your last output from the interpreter. Sometimes this messes up and jumps you right back to the top, but more often than not, it works. In the version of Zoom that Andrew sent me though, some of the text editing commands seem to conflict with his new speak previous move commands. Perhaps he could allow you to set up shortcut keys for these options? In all fairness, the speak previous move commands aren’t as useful as they once were because of this new trick with disabling cursor tracking, but they are sometimes helpful, especially if you want to use the direct TTS functions built into Zoom rather than voiceover’s own speech.

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  1. [...] is full, VO will zip you to the top of the screen if using the strategies already mentioned here. There isn’t an easy workaround for this at present. the best thing to do is navigate to the [...]

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