okay, so here goes, if you look at the mails that is eventually shooting VO down, there is no strange letters in the subject, we are 4 different persons who is trying to fix this into a update so it don't happen again, but is hard too duplicate. Could someone be so kind as to send me a private email with the letters? Stopping it from happening is easy enough, but making it crash is hard,
On 2/17/16, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > In VoiceOver utility, under speech category, set all your voices to Alex and > Alex to be your default voice. It seems as if somehow the announcements are > made by a different voice rather than default. > > hope this helps. > > Andrew >> On 16 Feb 2016, at 23:10, Marie Lyons <mlyons...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> V/O F8 doesn’t do anything on my computer. Well since then I wound up with >> 3 different voices. Alex reads the message but Victoria and Fred seem to >> make the announcements. I don’t like this. I have no idea why I can’t >> fix it. >> >> Marie Lyons >>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:18 PM, CJ Daniel <cj.bear.dan...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:cj.bear.dan...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Marie, >>> >>> Press VO-F8 to launch the VO Utility. VO-Shift-DownArrow on the Category >>> table. Arrow to the Speech option. VO-Shift-UpArrow to stop interacting >>> & move right to the voice options. Press VO-SpaceBar to select it. Down >>> Arrow to the Configure option. Pick any other voice than Alex, Bruce, or >>> Fred. Wait for it to download & then select it. That’ll do it. >>> >>> You see there’s an ass on the list, who has figured out a string of text >>> that, when inserted into the subject line of an email, causes Alex to >>> shut down. It’s real cute. I hope he reaps what he’s sown. >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> CJ >>> >>> >>>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Marie Lyons <mlyons...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> My v/o keeps shutting down. What can I do to fix it? >>>> >>>> Marie Lyons. I had called disability support and they couldn’t figure it >>>> out. Help greatly appreciated >>>> >>>> Marie Lyons >>>>> On Feb 14, 2016, at 10:55 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello Everyone, >>>>> >>>>> I became aware of the offensive emails and the deliberate string to >>>>> shut >>>>> down the Alex screen reader this morning. >>>>> >>>>> At that time, I looked at the email address of the sender and >>>>> recognized it >>>>> as one that I had just banned, last night, from the V iPhone list, for >>>>> posting offensive language. >>>>> >>>>> For whatever reason, when I attempted to locate her/his address in the >>>>> members list of this group, I could not find it. Yet, the posts >>>>> continued >>>>> to come to the list. >>>>> >>>>> I was away from my computer for most of the day but, upon returning >>>>> home >>>>> about an hour or so ago, I managed to locate the user and first, >>>>> change >>>>> his/her posting privileges and then remove him from the list. >>>>> >>>>> To be quite honest, the account I located was unlike any I've seen in >>>>> any >>>>> groups. So, it is possible, more messages will come through but I >>>>> think I >>>>> located the right address. Only time will tell. >>>>> >>>>> Please know that I, on behalf of Cara, am paying close attention and >>>>> am >>>>> doing all I can to rid the list of such nuisances. >>>>> >>>>> For the record, the malicious string shut down my speech synthesizer, >>>>> as >>>>> well. Very, very annoying. 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