Hi Erik, Odd that the checkbox doesn't change. I don't turn speech off on my iphone much, so have never checked that out. Anyway, glad this helped.
You know, it's funny. When SL came out, I was really excited about the trackpad commander. But I stopped using it almost immediately, because it seemed I was always making things happen that I didn't want to, moving the cursor, opening windows, etc. My arms tend to rest on the front part of the Macbook, so when I was typing they would move across the trackpad, initiating various and sundry events. I haven't used the trackpad since shortly after I installed SL. I may give it another try someday, but for the moment I've decided it's easier to stick to the keyboard. Good luck, and let me know how it goes. Take care, Donna On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:44 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi Donna, I just did the double tap 3 and yes it muted and unmuted my > speech. The odd thing is, when I checked the mute speech setting in > voiceover utility it was unchecked even though the speech was muted. > Checking and unchecking the box does nothing if yu mute speech using > the trackpad. > > Well I don't know how I keep managing to do this by accident, but at > least thanks to you I know how to take care of it more easily. > > Now back to trying to make the rest of the track pad work... Sighs. > > Best, > > erik burggraaf > A+ certified technician and user support consultant. > Phone: 888-255-5194 > Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2009-11-03, at 11:48 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> >> Hi Erik, >> >> The gesture that turns off speech on the iphone is a double-tap with >> three fingers. I know it seems unlikely, but is it possible you did >> this by accident? It's a toggle, so the next time it happens, try >> doing a three-finger double-tap, and see if speech starts up again. >> If it does, you know what's causing your problem. >> Best, >> Donna >> >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:31 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi guys. I'm playing around with the track pad commander and I >>> can't >>> get it to do much. >>> >>> One of the things I have been able to do with it though is mute >>> speech . Please don't ask me how I accomplish this. I' couldn't >>> begin to tell you . Fortunately I have mmy braile display here and >>> so >>> all is not lost. In fact, muting speech is the ideal comfort zone >>> for >>> me when using the braille display. >>> >>> The thing is, I'm not muting the speech intentionally. I'm just >>> cruzing arount the screen when VO says "speech muted and stops >>> talking. When I go into voice over utility and look at the mute >>> check >>> box it is unchecked. If I check it and then uncheck it, I still get >>> no speech. If I turn voiceover off then back on I get welcome to >>> voiceover and then I get speech muted and then I get no speech. >>> If I >>> make a volume adjustment using command vo up and down then speech >>> comes right back, even though neither the system volume or the vo >>> volume are turned down. >>> >>> Has any one else seen this? It's happened to me twice in the last 3 >>> days. I'd like to just ditch this trackpad commander. To me it is >>> starting to look like more trouble than it's worth. Unfortunately I >>> might have to teach it and so I need to hang in there for a while >>> yet >>> and see if I can make it happen. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> erik burggraaf >>> A+ certified technician and user support consultant. >>> Phone: 888-255-5194 >>> Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >>> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
