Hi Peter,
The last version of Audacity which is accessible on a Mac is the screen
reader version of 2.1.1:
https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html/audacity-macosx-ub-2.1.1-screen-reader.dmg
I'm not aware of any tutorials for using Audacity with VoiceOver.
There is a guide for users of Jaws, and the appropriate version of the
guide is:
http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.1.1-Guide.html
There's a section in the guide on keystrokes. The equivalent of the Ctrl
key on Windows is the Command key on Mac.
Note that not all the parts of Audacity which are accessible on Windows are
accessible on a Mac.
The following is taken from the Accessibility page of the Manual for 2.1.1,
which is available from the help menu:
The following parts of Audacity are either not accessible or have
accessibility issues for users of VoiceOver on Mac:
- As in the case of Windows: Label Tracks
<https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Label_Tracks>, Clips
<https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Tracks_and_Clips>,
and Time Tracks <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Time_Tracks>.
- Metadata Editor
<https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Metadata_Editor>
- Edit labels dialog, which is opened on the Tracks
<https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Tracks_Menu> menu.
- The input and output sliders in the Toolbars. As an alternative, on
Mac laptops with integrated keyboards you can adjust the output volume
using function keys (F11 and F12 on recent models, F3, F4 or F5 on G3 and
G4 machines) - read this page
<http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts#Shortcuts_on_laptops> for
help. In addition you can adjust the input volume on the Input tab of the
Sound Window of System Preferences.
- When you change whether a track is selected, solo or mute, VoiceOver
does not automatically read out the new state of the track. However,
provided you are interacting with the scroll area, you can manually read
this by pressing VO-W, or VO-A, or VO-S, or VO-L.
- The edit-spinbox controls which are used for example in Selection
Toolbar <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Selection_Toolbar> for
Selection Start and Selection End/Length are only partially accessible.
- When you move to one of these controls, VoiceOver reads out the
time. However, when you move between the digits using the left and right
arrow keys, or change the time using the up and down arrow keys or typing
in digits, then VoiceOver does not give any feedback. You can
manually read
the time by pressing VO-W.
- When you TAB forwards from Audio Position, the "Selection End" or
"Selection Length" radio button is read as "Selection Start".
When you use *Command
+ F6 *or *Command + Shift + F6* to move directly into "Selection End"
from another toolbar, the button is read as "Selection Start".
- For VoiceOver to read any minus sign or decimal point in a text box,
then in VoiceOver's verbosity settings, punctuation should be set to All.
Note than when this is set, VoiceOver reads a minus sign as a dash.
David.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 18:24, Peter Bosher <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,
I've joined the list simply to ask for help for a friend who really
wants to start using the Mac version of Audacity. Please do you have
any pointers to tutorials for using it with Voiceover, or documentation
listing keyboard shortcuts, or any other resources to help get started?
? Any help really appreciated.
Best,
Peter
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