Hello Colin
To make this easier, you can set up events for Adium for specific sound
sets. This means that you can technically enable various different
events for sound sets, so if you like the iChat sounds, for example, you
can switch to iChat when creating another notification preset.
Obviously, you are not required to select different sounds, so if you
want, you can simply leave that alone and simply use it for an easy
switch of spoken events.
To find the Events preferences, hit Command-Comma to go into
Preferences, then interact with the Toolbar. Next, move to the events
button and hit VO-Space to select it. In some cases in Adium, you are
not thrown out of the toolbar as you should be,so simply stop
interacting and move right with the VoiceOver keys to focus on the
events table.
If you just want to use the "Default notifications" you can leave the
pop up alone which governs what notifications you are currently using.
This allows for a high degree of customization, allowing you to include
extras should you wish to download them. It is also worth noting that it
appears that you can save as many configurations as you would like to save.
If you want to assign an event to a current notification, select the
"Events" table, then interact with it. Now, simply move down with either
VO-Down or down arrow on its own to move through the table, and when you
see an notification you would like to assign an event to, simply stop
interacting with the table, then VO-right until you reach the "Add"
button and hit VO-Space. To see what events are currently assigned to a
notification, simply move to the third column right next to the name of
the notification. If you are not interacting, VoiceOver will
automatically read all the columns in a row. In this case, if you want
to expand a notification to remove one or more of its events, you can
either use VO-Backslash to expand it or simply use the right arrow key
which performs the same action. When expanding a notification, simply
move to the event you would like to edit or remove, stop interacting if
you are, and VO-right to either the "Edit" or "Remove" buttons. Editing
obviously lets you recreate the event as you see fit.
Adding events is also relatively simply. You simply hit the "Add" button
after selecting the notification you would like to add an event to, then
select the type of event such as "Speak event." When selecting the
different pop up choices, the options will change to reflect your
selection. In the case of "Speak event," options to select exactly what
is spoken such as name and time appear, including whether or not to use
a custom speech rate and pitch as well as voice. If you uncheck the
custom checkboxes, it will obey the options set under System Preferences
in the Speech category.
Additionally, you may also switch off Cursor Tracking with VO-Shift-F3.
In this case, you obviously do not need these events in case you want to
read them as they come in at your own leisure. Switching off Cursor
Tracking is actually very handy, as the keyboard focus doesn't move the
VoiceOver cursor. This enables you to read what you have written using
the arrow keys only, and quickly read incoming information in any
application as soon as it comes in by simply leaving the VoiceOver
cursor in the preferred area. This is handy in Applications like Skype
as well, particularly Skype 5.1.
When you interact with the HTML content area, which VoiceOver reports as
"unknown," you are primarily always put at the top of the chat. You can
use a command like FN-Shift-VO-End to get to the bottom and
FN-Shift--VO-Home to get to the top, though primarily you may be able to
ditch the Shift key in favor of only using FN-VO home and end.
I hope this helps. I wanted to provide the information about the events
so that it might make it a bit easier and make it so that you have to
move around less within Adium.
Regards,
Nic
Post by Sarah AlawamiYou end up at the bottom every time you interact with that unknown. I
believe that's the case.
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Post by Colin MHi All!
I've finely got Adium up and running!
And was wondering if or how you can stay at the bottom of the chat
window or do you have to keep interacting and scrolling to the bottom
every time?
Any advice welcome!
Colin
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