[mac4theblind] Re: Resetting VoiceOber preferences?
- From: Scott Davert <scottslistmail@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:46:55 -0400
You're right Cheryl.
I was just saying that you never lose Voiceover support durring the
reset of your preferences, so you can reenable it if it somehow gets
turned off. Even if VoiceOver is not set to start up with the
computer, command f5 will automatically launch it.
Scott
On 8/8/12, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think Jennifer is trying to enable it at startup not disable it, but I
> could be mistaken.
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> May the words of my mouth
> and the meditation of my heart
> be acceptable to You, Lord,
> my rock and my Redeemer.
> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Scott Davert <scottslistmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> thank you Bob! That did the trick.
>> As for disabling VoiceOver on start up, you can reconfigure that if it
>> also gets reset, but it shouldn't. You never lose VoiceOver support
>> when resetting preferences. Even if you did, bring it right back up
>> with the keyboardshortcut command f5.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 8/8/12, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Vo should start automatically unless you have it set to ask for your
>>> username and password each time you start the computer. In that case,
>>> you
>>> have to go into "users and Groups in system preferences. First, click
>>> the
>>> lock to make changes and you will have to enter your password to do
>>> this.
>>> Then, interact with users, groups, and login options and vokeys-arrow
>>> down
>>> to login options. Stop interacting and vokeys-arrow to your right. Then
>>> you
>>> can either check the box to use voiceover in the login window or you can
>>> change the pop-up to automatic login for your user; this eliminates the
>>> login window and voiceover will start automatically if you had it on
>>> before
>>> you shut down or restarted. This doesn't have anthing to do with
>>> resetting
>>> voiceover preferences.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheryl
>>>
>>> May the words of my mouth
>>> and the meditation of my heart
>>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Jenifer <claudastar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would that also reset the preference to have VO start automatically?
>>>> I'm
>>>> just curious.
>>>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Robert Hill <molliesdad87@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Scott,
>>>>>
>>>>> If you open up VoiceOver preferences, and go to the file menu, there's
>>>>> an
>>>>> option to reset all preferences.
>>>>> Hopefully that will give you what you want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob Hill
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Scott Davert <scottslistmail@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I figured out the issue with the braille display and keyboard
>>>>>> commands not working. Someone, and we're not sure who, removed all of
>>>>>> the braille keyboard commands from VoiceOver. So, my question is, is
>>>>>> there anyway to reset them all back to their defaults instead of
>>>>>> having to go through and remapping the entire lot? My Macbook at home
>>>>>> was not messed with, so I saved my VO preferences on a thumb drive
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> loaded them on this Macbook at work. However, the braille keyboard
>>>>>> commands are not retained, so this option is out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>>>> Scott
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