Hi, If you have a trackpad and it is on, she might have accidentally double-tapped the trackpad with three fingers. This will cause VoiceOver to mute in any case, and also keep this setting on. This is technically the only logical way this would happen. Of course, speech could also be turned off and not all of VoiceOver's features, such as the VoiceOver sounds. This would have to be done from a dialog box unless you have commands assigned to the trackpad commander to do this. If this is not the case, however, go into VoiceOver Utility by hitting VO-F8. Move down to the "Speech" category, VO-right to the "Mute Speech" checkbox and hit VO-Space to uncheck. When you are on the table, which is your default location when entering the VoiceOver Utility, simply hit S once, then VO-right three times to find the checkbox.
Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On May 5, 2010, at 12:02 AM, marie Howarth wrote: > That is strange as cmd-f5 is always meant to turn VO on or off, or using the > Fn-cmd-f5 on macbooks not using function keys with VO. Maybe having a look in > system prefs in the universal access but this is a new one to me. Might be an > idea to reset the pram, to do this shut the computer off, hit the power > button and get ready to press the following key combination as soon as you > hear the start up chimes, command-option-p-r and hold these keys down until > you hear the chime again. If this doesn't work maybe it's a reinstall job, > but I'm sure other listers may have some ideas. > The link to Apple's page on how to reset pram is > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379 > HTH > > On 4 May 2010, at 22:50, Hypnotic Consulting wrote: > >> Hey folks, My wifes broken something and now VO won't really talk. Here's >> what's happening. I turn VO on, and he then starts and says speech off. I've >> restarted and he's still doing the same thing. >> My wife said all she did was install office. Any ideas? >> Jorge >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
