April, I can't even imagine what approach you're trying to take here, or why you're taking it.
In the nearly four years I've been using a Mac, I don't think I've *ever turned Voiceover off. You don't need to "clear" anything. Best, Donna On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:34 PM, April Brown <aprilbrownwr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason for turning VoiceOver off is to clear it, so when I open it back > up, it will be back at the beginning, and maybe I can manage to figure out > the steps to opening a web page from the bookmarks. I know it's incorrect. > I haven't found directions anywhere. I just have multiple lists of commands, > and no idea what order to put them in. It's a giant jigsaw puzzle. I try > what you suggest. > > Thanks, > > April > . > > On Sunday, January 12, 2014 2:29:48 PM UTC-5, Ray Foret jr wrote: > April, > > First, you are needlessly making far too much work for yourself all for > nothing. Why do you insist you must turn Voice OVer off every time you get > out of Safari. This is quite frankly, unnecessary. Also, the procedure you > are using to try to open bookmarks is completely incorrect. > > First, leave Voice OVer on. DO, NOT, turn it off. > > Here’s how to get in to book marks. > > 1. Open Safari. > > 2. Now, press VO+m to open the menu structure. > > 3. Now, press b for book marks. > > 4. Now, arrow down in to this menu, and, when ever you hear a book mark > folder you want to get in to, press right arrow to expand it. > > Want to edit your book Marks? > > Do this. > > 1. Open safari. > > 2. Press Cmd+Option+b. That gets you in to the edit book marks window. > > You should know enough by now to take it from there. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:21 PM, April Brown <aprilbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I opened Safari. >> I turned VoiceOver on. >> After a dozen tries, I managed to get it onto the Bookmarks. >> Somehow, as I was transferring my notes to a Pages document, it crashed, and >> a low, low, grumbling male voice started speaking. >> >> I turned off VoiceOver, closed Safari, and tried again. >> >> Another dozen tries, and I never did get it back on the Bookmarks bar to an >> actual bookmark. The one time I did, it wouldn't click on it, it >> highlighted and wanted to change it. Huh? >> >> So, I closed and turned it all off again. >> >> Then, I opened Safari back up. Opened up a web page, and turned VoiceOver >> back on. Again it got stuck in the menu, and would not get to content. At >> least, unlike in Firefox, I can click on the region I need read to me, and >> it will then work. >> >> That's my 30 minutes of trying to open a webpage today. >> >> Back to writing. >> >> And you wonder why I need step by step directions, and not just a random >> list. >> >> So far, to get it on Safari, I have: >> Step 1: Open Safari >> Step 2: Command, F5 to start VoiceOver >> Step 1: Control, Option, Down arrow from the menu to the bookmarks. And yet >> it doesn't quiet work, as it doesn't go the list of bookmarks. It did once. >> >> And where did this creepy male voice come from that keeps interrupting? I >> can't comprehend low tones. >> >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionarie...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@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.
