unmuting your computer

  • From: "Troy Burnham" <homerun@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:46:58 -0500

Hi All,
The below instructions were posted on another list, hope they are helpful.
Troy


Hello All:

As screen reader users, it's probably a good idea to have something setup 
ahead of time so that if we ever get muted, we can fairly easily unmute.  I 
did an experiment and it worked, so Here is what I did.  Keep
in mind DO THIS BEFORE YOU GET Muted.

1.  Go to the start menu.
2.  Press "p" to get to All Programs.  If your start menu has more than one 
thing starting with "p" on it, such as "Printers and Faxes," you'll need to 
press enter to get into the programs menu.
3.  Press "a" to go to Accessories, then press enter.
4.  Press "e" to go to the Entertainment sub menu.  In most cases, you won't 
have to press enter because Entertainment is the only thing on the 
accessories sub menu starting with the letter "e."
5.  Arrow down to "Volume Control."  Do not press enter.
6.  Press the Applications key, third key to the right of the space bar.
7.  Press "r" to bring up the properties of the volume control shortcut 
which is what you arrowed down to in the entertainment sub menu.
8.  Press tab two times until you hear "Short cut key." When you hear this, 
type a key combination you'd like to use to get to the volume control from 
anywhere.  I used ctrl-alt-v.
9. Press enter.

It would be good to test this before the day your computer becomes muted. 
Press ctrl-alt-v or whatever short cut key you chose.  Make sure
you hear "Master volume Control."  If you do not, then repeat the steps 
above for setting up the short cut.

If you hear Master Volume, then you know the short cut key works.  Tab two 
times to the "Mute All," check box.  It should be unchecked.  Press space 
bar to check it.  Your screen reader will go silent.

Press alt-F4 to close down the volume control.  Now, you are about to do 
exactly what you will do if your computer ever becomes muted.

Press ctrl-alt-v or whatever short cut key you set up.  Tab twice and press 
space bar.  This will turn off the mute all check box and your screen reader 
will start speaking again.

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