Did you try command-tab? Portia. -----Original Message----- From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:13 AM To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [macvoiceover] problem waking up my new Mac Hi all, I have a problem with my new Mac, in that it apparently went in to some sort of sleep that I'm not use to with my older one running Snow Leopard. When that one went to sleep, I could press an arrow key, wait a few seconds, and it would be back up and running. With this one, I pressed the arrow, waited, got nothing, pressed it again, still nothing. So I pressed command f-5 to see if VO was somehow frozen or off or whatever. VO came on, said Voice Over on, authentication, and that's it. If there is a dialogue, nothing is being spoken by vo. Can't interact. Can't do anything except turn VO off and on and always get that same cryptic message "authentication", but I can't do anything about it. Any help? 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 >