I do not usejuse Track Pad Commander as I am exclusively a keyboard VO user but I suggest that you both forward your emails to accessibil...@apple.com
I believe that I have seen others report this problem with mail but you may the first to have homed in on the use of the Track Pad commander as the cause of the difficulty. David Griffith > On 5 Jan 2015, at 04:46, Sarah Lanier <bioinstructo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have the same problem, except that the only thing I can use the keyboard > for when it freezes is Voice Over commands. > > Sarah > > > Sent from Windows Mail > > From: Aleeha Dudley <mailto:blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 8:53 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > > Good evening all, > For the past week, I have been experiencing an interesting bug with my new > 2014 MacBook Air that I received for Christmas. I have also been able to > replicate the bug on a mid 2011 MacBook Pro. I’m wondering if anyone else has > experienced this issue. If so, what did you do about it? So, here goes. > This bug usually only happens in messages or mail. If I am typing in a text > field and ump the trackpad in such a way that VoiceOver thinks I have > performed a one finger double tap, I lose partial functionality of my > keyboard. Trackpad commander must be turned on for this to occur. After the > double tap, I can no longer type in text fields, press enter, quit an > application, close a window, or press escape. I can command tab out of the > application and work with other applications, but I cannot type in any other > text field, like spotlight. I have to do a restart of the machine. It got so > bad one day that my entire mail corrupted and I had to reinstall the OS. I am > running the latest operating system. Has anyone else seen this? > Thanks, > Aleeha Dudley > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
