strangely, it did not happen on my other macs and does not happen on my imac. On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yep it happens to me all the time. I just do a cmd tab and it says voice over on and what ever else I set up for the intro. I hope this gets fixed in another build of lion, or ml but I'm not holding my breath. Take care. On Jun 28, 2012, at 6:26 AM, George B wrote: > this happens sometimes and just do a v o command i.e. option control shift d > and it puts focus to the desktop > > From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert Poehlman > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 06:10 > To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mac4theblind] mac boots in no man's land: > > All, > > I'm using a macbook pro 17 inch early 2008 with lion up-to date. When I boot > the computer, unless I command-tab first, it is in no man's land where the > window chooser reports no windows. > > It's not really an issue but it is a bit annoying not to know when boot has > finished except for the quiet sound of the drive going away. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > With His > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > touching the internet > Reducing Technology's disabilities > One Byte At a time > > -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s touching the internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At a time