[macvoiceover] Re: Another Zoom question

  • From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Macvoiceover list list <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:11:55 -0500

Hi Russell,

This is done so sighted people can easily follow along to what a voiceover user 
is doing on the computer.  To turn this off, go to Vo utilities and under 
visuals select the Caption Panel tab.  In here, uncheck Show caption panel.

hth

Ricardo Walker
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On Jan 19, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was at my friend’s yesterday. She is able to get the Zoom settings to stay 
> now… she just has to press CTRL and touch the mouse to have the zoom jump 
> back to what she set it at.
> 
> She is encountering another odd problem though.  Whenever VoiceOver speaks 
> anything, for instance, “You are in a table, to interact with this table, 
> press VO Shift downarrow”, this text is shown on the screen in a box just 
> above and to the left of the Doc.  The problem is that with the screen 
> Zoomed, this text actually covers some of the icons on the Doc and hides them 
> from view.  Is there a way to have this text not show on the screen?  What is 
> the purpose of the VoiceOver output being shown on the screen?  I hope this 
> is making sense?
> 
> Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Russell>
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