Hi Jonathan: I used the original keyboard and I restarted and the same issue
On 2/25/18, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Ever since High Sierra came out, I've been experiencing this problem. It's > not every minute, but I often find it happens when I'm working on the Mac. > That is, it doesn't happen if I leave the machine alone but on. > > The problem is that it interrupts speech. I can't do vo-a anymore, because > I'll usually get interrupted by this partway along and have to re-read from > the start of the paragraph I was on. If I switch apps and wait to hear the > title, such as the open webpage in Safari, VO cuts off before it gets that > far. You get the idea. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen > often enough to be disruptive. I understand that I'm the only one for whom > this is a problem, or so I thought until this thread came along. As I do run > macOS betas, I've reported this problem and sent stack shots. > > I've found no fix thus far. I've used an external keyboard as well as the > built-in one. I never change activities, manually or automatically. I do run > off an archived copy of VO prefs that I've maintained for a few years, so > that could be the problem. Now that I think of it, I should try disabling > Portable Preferences and setting up VO anew, to see if that fixes things. I > wonder if anyone else experiencing this issue is using Portable > Preferences? > > -- > Alex Hall > > > > >> On Feb 25, 2018, at 09:03, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have never experienced this message repeating. Have you tried >> restarting or using a different keyboard? I don't even think when my >> system changes activities that it speaks. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> >> >>> On Feb 24, 2018, at 10:01 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Activities are a way to change some VoiceOver settings for a particular >>> web site or application. For example I change the voice for the >>> notification center. >>> >>> Generally this is only spoken when you ask about the application with >>> vo-f1. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Jonathan Cohn >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Feb 22, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Ramy Moustafa <ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all: >>>> >>>> don’t know what is going on, but am working on my mac mini using High >>>> sierra, and, each minute, Voice over says this: >>>> Voiceover Settings activity. >>>> what is it? and how can i get read of it? >>>> THANKS IN ADVANCE >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>>> Visionaries list. >>>> >>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>>> >>>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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