Hey Ricardo, That's fantastic advice. I just tried it with VO on, and your directions got me to where I needed to be with a little practice should be able to remember it. Thanks, going to try it tomorrow with VO turned off, to see if I can do it. Thanks again. On Dec 15, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. -- 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.
