Hi, Go to Voiceover utilities with control option F8. Then navigate to verbosity and select the hints tab. I believe the setting you want to uncheck says something like speak instructions. On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:06 PM, David Poyner wrote: > Hello, > Is it possible to remove the command that states press control, shift, up or > down arrow? I seem to get it all the time and I have tried various > unsuccessful ways of removing it and failed so far. > > Regards > David Poyner > > Chair British Blind Sport Archery > Go to www.bbsarchery.org.uk > > chairman and webmaster St. Dunstans Archery Club > Go to www.st-dunstans-archery-club.org.uk > > > > > On 23 Feb 2011, at 17:16, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi Mary, >> >> You can get around not having a num pad, and still use the num pad >> commander. When the num pad commander is on, pressing the assigned number >> with the left arrow key will perform the designated action. Of course, you >> will have to turn quick nav off. >> >> hth >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx >> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >> >> >> >> On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> Travis, >>> I really like the num pad commander. I deliberately purchased a full >>> size keyboard with my Mac mini so I could have that feature, but the >>> Apple keyboards these days don't come with a num pad. You mentioned >>> using an external num pad, which is an obvious solution for num pad >>> commander lovers. I had lots of issues in the past with Windows laptops >>> and num pads that didn't issue the right signals to enable them to be >>> used as screen reader adjuncts, as for example, with the window eyes >>> mouse keys. So for the question: is there a particular num pad that is >>> known to work with a Mac laptops that will issue the proper signals so >>> that num pad commander will work? Those numpads that didn't work right >>> with screen readers worked ok for number entry, but I could care less >>> about that. I want one that will let me have a Macbook Air and use >>> numpad commander. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>>> >>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>> >>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >