[macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help needed - getting VO to speak when booting from USB flash drive?
- From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Macvoiceover list list <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:04:12 -0400
Hello,
Yes. I was in the ML recovery partition a couple of days ago. VO turned on
with command F5, it was just really low. Honestly, if I wasn’t using headphones
at the time, I might have not notice Voiceover was on.
Ricardo Walker
ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Jun 18, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> I tried the Fn key with command F5, but no go. I now tried turning up the
> volume, but that didn't work either. Ricardo, have you had luck with getting
> VO to speak when booting from a thumb drive or SD card? The strange thing
> is, I can't even get VO to speak when booting to the ML recovery partition...
> is VO available at the ML recovery partition, as far as you know? Wow, one
> of the things I loved about my Mac over a Windows machine was the ability to
> re-install the OS independently, but, it seems that functionality may not be
> available anymore!
>
> Thanks Ricardo!
>
> Russell
> On 2013-06-18, at 5:46 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The volume could be turned down very low as well.
>>
>> Ricardo Walker
>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>> www.appletothecore.info
>>
>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:28 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey John,
>>>
>>> Oh, yes. I tried Command F5 many, many times! :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for checking though!
>>>
>>> Russell
>>> On 2013-06-17, at 3:55 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know a simple question, but did you do a command-F5 to start VoiceOver?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Take Care
>>>>
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>>>> On Jun 17, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I backed up all my files, and am now ready to do a clean install of
>>>>> Mountain Lion. I am using a 16 GB SD card. I downloaded Lion Disk
>>>>> Maker, and created a bootable SD card. I then inseted this card into my
>>>>> computer with an SD card reader, went to System Preferences and chose
>>>>> this SD card as the startup drive, and then restarted the computer.
>>>>>
>>>>> My problem is that I am not able to get VO to start off of this SD card!
>>>>> I know that I have booted to it because I called a friend on FaceTime on
>>>>> my iPhone and had her look at the screen. I have the options to install
>>>>> ML, go to Utilities, etc., but I can't get VO to come on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if using Lion Disk Maker to create a bootable SD card
>>>>> actually includes files to allow for VO use? Or, should I create the
>>>>> bootable SD card using the Mac's own Disk Utilities?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>>
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