Hi, One addition to everyone's suggestion of double-tapping with three fingers on the TrackPad. If this gesture does not work for you, the TrackPad Commander may not be enabled. To enable the TrackPad Commander, hold down the VO keys, then twist two fingers on the Trackpad in a gesture like you're turning up a volume knob. This will enable the TrackPad Commander so that this gesture will take. Turn down the virtual knob to turn TrackPad commander off. If you do not have a TrackPad, press VO-f8 to open the VO Utility, press cmd-3 to bring focus to the Speech category, press tab twice then the spacebar once to uncheck the "Mute Speech" checkbox. As mentioned, you may wish to create a keyboard commander item for this to make your life easier.
Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 13, 2020, at 12:18, ioanidis via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: You should be able to double-tap with three fingers on the touch pad to unmute voiceover. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Paul Hopewell Sent: 13 April 2020 17:16 To: macvisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: How to unmute accidentally muted VoiceOver? Hello, I use VoiceOver on my iMac running the latest Catalina. Occasionally I do something which results in VoiceOver speech muted. How can I easily unmute VoiceOver without asking for sighted help? Stopping and restarting VoiceOver with Command+F5 does not help. VoiceOver just restarts with speech off! I note that on my iPhone I can do a 3 finger double tap to toggle speech on and off. It would be great if there were a iMac keyboard command to do this. Many thanks … Paul Hopewell -- 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. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/BEA06E3D-6B05-4892-90D2-AF84698E4434%40hopewell.org.uk. -- 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. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/006301d611bf%24f5a734d0%24e0f59e70%24%40me.com. -- 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. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/CB724010-BDC6-479B-8C95-F4D8A5655B59%40me.com.
