MacOS "Speak Selection"

[Paul Gilmartin]

My eyesight is poor.  I rely  heavily on MacOS Accessibility
features, Screen Zoom, which works with Stellarium, and
Speak Selection.  Alas, the latter, Mac default Option Escape,
in Stellarium speaks not the selected text, but "Stellarium 25.1".

I'm looking at the Help; Keyboard Shortcuts, as in Guide 4.8
Editing Keyboard Shortcuts, but can't find "Speak Selection".
What might it be called?  Can I assign it to a different key
combination?  If I simply disable Stellarium's Opt-Esc (how?)
will it revert to the OS default?

As it is I can only Copy a text selection, Paste it into an editor
and Speak it from there.  Very cumbersome.

What was the motivation for "Speak Stellarium 25.1"?  It's
highly redundant -- I can do that from log.txt with practically
any editor.

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Thanks,
gil

[Georg Zotti]

Very simple. Stellarium is a graphics-heavy simulation that was neither prepared for speech output nor for tactile feedback to Braille screens. In no way, no line of code from us. What you experience is likely the OS's default behaviour, that may just emit the program's window caption. Any screen reader will simply fail to read the text on the screen, as it is converted to graphics before output. If you need almanach coordinates, consider using different programs or websites.

Just a few weeks ago I tried Qt's speech output, though. Not bad. But I am unsure yet how to apply this to a GUI and we have traditionally not enough time to concentrate on this. Maybe we can add something for the large text fields (skyculture and landscape descriptions). But speech output of the logfile will not be very interesting...