Dear Simon, No, you should not have any problems because you turned VoiceOver off before your systems upgrade. Anyone should be able to activate VoiceOver, providing the right set of keys are pressed. The only problem with the Num Lock key is that the keys you press are not sending the information you expect. Since this key is right next to the F5 key that you use for activating VoiceOver, it's a problem that can easily happen when VoiceOver is turned off.
The other problem is making sure that your volume is turned up enough to hear VoiceOver speak. Cheers, Esther >Dear esther, > >Just one more thing: before installing Leopard, I disabled VO by pressing >command+f5. Is it significant? > >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! >>> >>> >> > > > >
