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Simple: Announce when application needs your attention

By Ricky Buchanan on May 1, 2008

Simple: Announce when application needs your attention

An application “needing attention”, in Apple’s language, is one that’s waiting for you to tell it something before it can keep going and isn’t the app you’re currently working with. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will use the system voice to tell you that an alert is being displayed.

Posted in Information, Neurologically Impaired, Simple, Text to Speech, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged bouncing icon, computer voice, dock icon bounce, mac voice, speak text, speech synthesizer, text speak, Text to Speech, tts, voice output, voices for mac | Leave a response

Simple: Announce when application displays an alert

By Ricky Buchanan on April 8, 2008

Simple: Announce when application displays an alert

If an application displays an alert, Mac OS X will bounce its dock icon a few times – easy to miss. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will also use the system voice to tell you what’s going on.

Posted in Information, Neurologically Impaired, Simple, Text to Speech, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged bouncing icon, computer voice, dock icon bounce, mac voice, speak text, speech synthesizer, system alert, text speak, Text to Speech, tts, voice output, voices for mac | Leave a response

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