Hi Deb!
Maybe your F12 is unchecked under keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard pref's!
Open system pref's and go to keyboard, select the keyboard shortcuts tab and in 
the table select Mission Control!
Then in the next table see if F12 for dash board is unchecked!
HTH Colin

On 13 Sep 2014, at 03:46, Joe Quinn <jdawg1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's odd, mine works fine...
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Sep 12, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've never gotten F12 to open the dashboard. FN F12 changes my volume and 
>> F12 alone does nothing. 
>> It's a well documented command so I'm not sure what i'm missing.
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, no problem.
>>> To go to the weather widget, press f12. You may want to close out 
>>> calculator with VO command escape.
>>> Press return to close that widget. Keep closing widgets if you need to 
>>> until you hear weather.
>>> Once you hear weather, if it is the right city, it will announce the 
>>> current temperature, you can also get a 6 day forecast.
>>> There is a group right beside the current weather item. VO right arrow and 
>>> interact with it to see the 6 day forecast.
>>> Hope this has been helpful.
>>> 
>>> Matt Dierckens
>>> Macintosh Trainer
>>> Blind Access Training
>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
>>> Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
>>> Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 16:05, Gene Baroni <meangene...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> please either tell me about dashboard or provide me with a link to 
>>>> instruct me on how to use it. I looked at it and could not find much 
>>>> except the calculator. It started out by telling me the temperature but 
>>>> that was all I could find even after I went threw the menus.
>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I personally use the dashboard to get my city's weather. Wuick and easy.
>>>>> Matt Dierckens
>>>>> Macintosh Trainer
>>>>> Blind Access Training
>>>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>>>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
>>>>> Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
>>>>> Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 14:17, Gene Baroni <meangene...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>  I am looking for a  good weather app for my mac mini  but I didn't find 
>>>>>> any good ones in the app  store. Any ideas?
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