Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-21 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Thank you, that solved my problem as well. Sent from Petrus's iPhone > On 22/11/2019, at 01:28, joseph hodge wrote: > Hi Anne thanks for the help that solved it for me. > On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:46 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Joseph, > > In System Preferences, go to Notifications wh

Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-21 Thread joseph hodge
Hi Anne thanks for the help that solved it for me. > On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:46 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Joseph, > > In System Preferences, go to Notifications where you’ll find a table of all > the applications that put out notifications. You can select the type of > notification yo

Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Joseph, In System Preferences, go to Notifications where you’ll find a table of all the applications that put out notifications. You can select the type of notification you want for each application or turn them all off. I have them turned off for everything. Cheers, Anne > On 21 No

Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-20 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yes, in System Preference, Notifications. Go to the Applications table, select Mail, then set the notifications to suppress notifications from Mail. Suppress may not be the exact term, but turn off anything to do with notifications in Mail and you should be fine. Later... Tim Kilburn A

Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-20 Thread joseph hodge
Sorry yes if I am in safari with mail open and I get a new email it takes VoiceOver to that message previeww and stops reading my safari window if I am doing a read all for example. Other than do not disturb is there a way around this? > On Nov 20, 2019, at 4:32 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I

Re: Voiceover focus question

2019-11-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I expect this is the Mail notifications you are talking about? After you hear about the new e-mail message are you still in Safari, or has focus moved somewhere else? There might be a way to have Notifications not speak, or you can turn on Do not disturb settings. I am being vague here, but if

Voiceover focus question

2019-11-20 Thread joseph hodge
I am getting back in to using a Mac and am having trouble with one thing. How do you stop Voiceover letting you know about background apps? Example if I am on Safari reading a article and I get a email VO goes to the email and stops reading the article. Thanks for any help with this! -- The fo