Hi, In some situations, there is a transparent layer active where things like aOS Heartbeat or some other agent has VO focus. This is difficult to nail down as it depends on what all you have installed and running on your Mac. Either click once on the trackpad, or press VO-shift-space once, and focus should be gained to the login window.
Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Nov 23, 2021, at 09:55, 'Catherine Turner' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Brad, > > In my case, this doesn't seem to work. If I type my password and > press Enter nothing happens. The one time I got a sighted person to > look at it they said the password box was on the screen but nothing > was happening when I was typing. It's like I have to bring focus to > it by swiping on the trackpad... > > Catherine > > On 11/22/21, Brad Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: >> If I am correct, even though VoiceOver doesn’t specifically say anything >> about the password edit field, your keyboard focus is on the password edit >> field by default at start-up, so if you just go ahead and type your password >> and then press the Enter key, you should be good. >> >> - Brad - >> >> >> On Nov 20, 2021, at 15:27, 'Catherine Turner' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks for all the responses. So it's to be expected that I put a >> password in on startup and that's fine with me. It just seems a bit >> odd that VO doesn't focus on the password field or say anything about >> it until I swipe on the trackpad... >> >> Catherine >> > > -- > 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: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/CABJRpGs1ZcQNnXwDaKAHWr-B2tVM7cGgg1137p3%2BVWgm%3DPD0QQ%40mail.gmail.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: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/1356E67F-6971-4B25-9938-AEA902AA9EC1%40me.com.
