Hi, With a little practice, and memorization, you can fix this with out restarting your Mac. First, you can open the sounds preferences by pressing FN option F11 or F12. Note: FN depends on how you have function keys set up in your keyboard preferences. You might have to only press Option plus F11 or F12. So, if output was the last tab you were in in sound preferences, this is remembered. If you want to make extra sure your in the output tab, as soon as you open sound preferences press VO right arrow twice, and VO space once to select the output tab. So now all you need do is press VO command T to jump to the output table. Press the up arrow a few times, (with quick nav off) and you should get sound back through your built in output.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Dec 13, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Nick, > > We must think alike as as soon as I got the bluetooth speakers I went to > keyboard to commander to see if I could set a toggle for my speaker output > but couldn't find one. Yeah, the bluetooth speakers crapped out again today. > I was on a long phone call and heard VO say there was a bluetooth error and > sure enough after the call, no voiceover at all. I did figure out finally > that restarting the computer will reset the bluetooth speakers so don't have > to wait on a sighted person to get VO back, but no turning off of the > speakers or anything else has gotten VO back just powering the whole thing > down which I hate doing as I lose my focus in my lists in Night Owl. > On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Bryan, >> Yes, AirPlay is much more reliable than bluetooth and works perfectly, >> assuming you can get VoiceOver to play via AirPlay in the first place. >> NO, unfortunately there's no way to get VoiceOver to default to the built in >> output if bluetooth fails. If there were, there wouldn't be a problem. The >> next best thing would be if there were a shortcut keystroke to make >> VoiceOver switch to the built in sound output, but I know no way of doing >> this either and so far Apple has apparently not acted on my request for one. >> :) >> Nic >> >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
