Dear Esther,
Tried it all to no avail. Before installing Leopard, I had changed the
keyboard setting to desktop to avoid having to press the FN key all the
time, and that setting seems to have been kept by leopard. I know that
because when I press FN with the functions keys, I hear various funny noises
which I recgonise as changing volume or brightness. I've tried hitting the
f6 key but I don't know now whether it's on or off. I've tried various
combinations and VO is still silent. Does it sound serious to you?
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: SOS: can't get mu VO to work after upgrading to Leopard
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!
