[macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help - muted VO accidentally!!

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:47:47 -0600

Hey Kristyn & Dean,

Thank you both for your help!  Somehow between a triple finger double tap and 
pressing VO command right, left, up and down arrows, I managed to get VO back 
up and running!  Not quite sure what did it though! <smile>

Thanks again,

Russell
On 2010-10-23, at 4:26 PM, Kristyn Leigh wrote:

> Try turning up the VO volume using 
> 
> Kristyn Leigh
> Sent from my mini Mac.
> kristyn0@xxxxxxxxx
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> On Oct 23, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dean,
>> 
>> I was excited at your suggestion, but, unfortunately, no luck!  A triple 
>> finger double tap does not bring VO back.  I think it's more than just muted 
>> as when I press command f5, to toggle VO on and off, when it turns on it 
>> says, VoiceOver on, speech off.  It doesn't say speech muted, but, speech 
>> off  Any other ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Russell
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dean Wilcox <wilcoxdean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:01 AM
>> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Urgent help - muted VO accidentally!!
>> 
>> With VO turned on perform a three finger double tap on the track pad.  Voice 
>> Over should say Voice Over unmuted and full speech should be returned. 
>> 
>> 
>> On 23 Oct 2010, at 14:46, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I was on my iMac and accidentally touched my Magic Track Pad and heard
>>> "Voice Over muted" or something like that.  Now, if I press Command F5 to
>>> turn VO off and then back on, it says, "Voice Over on, speech off" and I
>>> have no speech.  I had a sighted friend, who also has an iMac, turn on her
>>> VO and tried following the steps to get into the VO settings to unmute VO,
>>> but, it seems like my system is not going into the VO settings when I press
>>> VO key plus f8.
>>> 
>>> Is there a keystroke to unmute VO?  Is there anything I can do to unmute it
>>> without sighted help?
>>> 
>> 
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