Thanks, David, for suggesting that VoiceOver speech volume might be turned down. I was going to put that in, too, but when I learned about the FN key reversal I thought I should get this sorted out first. Do you (or does anyone else) know whether inserting the Leopard install disc has a startup procedure that allows you to hear VoiceOver without using the existing settings? I haven't done the install, but sometimes there are keyboard startup settings (e.g., for booting into single user mode) that will allow you to use the defaults. After all, at that stage there would be no way of knowing how Simon had set up his preferences (for keyboard or for VoiceOver) on his individual account.
Cheers, Esther On Dec 12, 2007, at 03:38PM, David Poehlman wrote: >it is posible that the vo speech volume is down. try turning your system to >max volume, then, use vo keys with command left and right arrow, using up >arrow at each press of the arrow. for instance, left, up, left, up and so >on. It creates a mess, but it should get you going. One thing that might >also help is to press vo-shift-f8 to start the vo quickstart and vo kicks in >after the intro. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Simon Cavendish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby >theblind" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:08 PM >Subject: Re: SOS: can't get mu VO to work after upgrading to Leopard > > >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! >>> >>> >> > > > > > >
