Having a Dialog Spoken

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Mar 12 00:42:27 EDT 2007


J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/11/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> I should imagine there is a special way of having the contents of a
>>>> Dialog spoken, though I don't readily find it.
>>>
>>> If you are just using a Mac, then you can just turn this on in the
>>> Speech section of the System Prefs.
>> 
>> I haven't been successful getting any standard screen reader on any 
>> platform to work with my Rev apps.  What's the trick?
>> 
> 
> I don't think the OS auto-speech works with Rev dialogs, because they 
> aren't real OS dialogs, they are just stacks.

Why must stacks be "just stacks"?  Why can't they be rendered using 
enough of the OS to enable things like screen readers?

My blind customers have had to walk from my wares in favor of competing 
products that use normal OS operations. :(

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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