Hi Simon, Remember that on a Macbook you need to hold down the FN key as well as the Command and F5 keys to get VoiceOver to start up. You may also want to hold down the F5 key on the Macbook for a while before turning on VoiceOver, since I think it's the hardware Volume up key on the Macbook. (The top row should be Escape, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5. )
The other possible gotcha if your VoiceOver was not turned on before your friend left is that you hit the F6 (num lock) key on the keyboard instead of F5. If so, try to press F6 again to toggle num lock off, and issue your command of FN+Command+F5 to turn on VoiceOver. Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Wed December 12, 2007, at 01:42PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: >Dear All, > >I've just installed Leopard on my new Macbook. it turned out that it came with >Tiger installed, and leopard on a CD. So I've just had it installed with >sighted assistance, as I'm not that experienced in VO yet. All went smoothly >and my friend has gone now. But when I tried to get my VO to start with the >usual combination of keys Command+f5 so that i could use my Macbook, nothing >happens. Does anyone know what might have happened? This command worked >perfectly well in tiger. > >S O S from desperate simon! > >
