Aleks is a young, up-and-coming voice over talent who specializes in bringing characters to life in video games and animation. His wide range of voices and in-depth knowledge of acting allows him to portray a vast variety of characters. Hello, High Sierra Today, Apple released the macOS 10.13 “High Sierra” update. As usual, I won’t cover the mainstream features for the most part, concentrating instead on accessibility. Please remember to check the section about bugs to see if it’s worth upgrading. There’s no harm in holding off a few weeks or months to let Apple address a problem you may find too disruptive to deal with. In particular, users of the “most” punctuation setting should know that this setting has been removed, leaving just “none”, “some”, or “all”. Braille users: the AppleVis team members doing testing with High Sierra are not heavy Braille users. Please remember that we can’t say how Braille works in this release at all, so upgrade at your own risk. New Features VoiceOver and Zoom haven’t changed much in this release, but there are a few things worth talking about. Huge PDF Improvements VoiceOver is, according to Apple, much better able to work with PDFs in High Sierra. ![]() If a PDF is accessible, VO will properly read tags and labels. It also better detects headings, links, and so on, and lets you navigate PDFs like webpages. The AppleVis team hasn’t been able to test this feature extensively, as our testers don’t do much with PDFs at all, but what we did test seemed very promising. Those of you who work a lot with PDFs: let us know your experiences in the comments. VoiceOver Speaks in Tongues VoiceOver can finally read multi-language content. When it detects a different language, it switches to a synthesizer in that language. This is great for webpages, emails, or documents you may have to work with that aren’t in your native language. Or maybe they are in your native tongue, and you find it annoying to force VoiceOver to or from English. If you find something where the language is detected incorrectly or not at all, you can use the speech rotor to select an appropriate voice. Add voices you may need in the VoiceOver Utility > Speech section as normal. The VO Utility has an expanded speech section now. You can use this to customize each language’s speech settings. Simply go to the section, hit the “add language” button, return to the table, and customize the new row in said table. You might want a much slower Spanish voice than your English one, or maybe you want to crank up the speed in German but leave English alone. You can do all this. Note that manually switching to a foreign voice, rather than having VO do it on its own, still uses that voice’s settings. That is, if your English voice is at 80% and your French voice is at 40%, using the speech rotor to select that French voice will use the 40% speech rate you’d expect. Also note that you can only add one voice per language. That is, you can’t set up two Spanish voices and pick between them, you have to keep just one Spanish voice set up at a time. Bettering the Braille In iOS 11, Apple introduced improved support for braille displays. While we don’t have braille testers on our team, we can confirm that the same improvements have arrived on the Mac as part of today’s upgrade. Contracted braille users will be especially happy to get this news, as the experience has been greatly simplified and enhanced. Now, you can edit in contracted braille, without worrying about pausing too long and having your text translated, or expanding a word under your cursor to computer braille before you can edit it. In a way, Apple is making braille closer to the experience of a notetaker, where the contracted braille you feel is what you edit. At the same time, though, macOS is handling translation behind the scenes, meaning that the system is “seeing” the translated text it expects. Rotor to the mistakes The VoiceOver rotor now has an option to move by misspelled words, in addition to the rotor items you already have.
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