Have you tried pressing VO right or left arrow? Sometimes VO won’t speak until you press a keystroke. I press the CTRL key to wake the Mac, and then just type in my password and press enter… I don’t worry about VO being on or off at that point, but, sometimes I will not realize that my Mac has gone to sleep and when VO doesn’t speak, I’ll press VO right arrow, and will hear VO say “Password”, and it’ll dawn on me that I’m in sleep mode. HTH Russell On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Mark Baxter <markbaxter38@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have set my Macbook Pro15 running Mountain Lion to require a password after > sleep or screen-saver is engaged. However, when I test it, VoiceOver does > not seem to be working until after I put in the password. I don't understand > why this is, when VO comes on when I turn on the computer and it asks for a > password at log-in. Is there a better way to fix this? > > Thanks. Be well. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >