I hope somebody has reported this to Apple; it makes no sense to have to get
sighted assistance or go through all sorts of steps without voice to turn
voiceover on!!!
Although I very much like the improvements in Leopard, I find that vo
crashes much more easily for me in Leopard than it ever did in tiger. I can
be working along, minding my own business, and suddenly lose the voice, yet
clicking when I cmd-tab would indicate vo is not actually gone. Pressing
cmd-f5 gets no response. The only fix I've found for this, other than a
complete reboot, is to press ctrl-eject as if I'm going to shutdown or
restart. Since I have alerts set up in sppech in system preferences, I
usually do get a voice asking if I want to shut down, though it isn't
voiceover. At that point, if I hit cmd-f5, voiceover is restored and I'm
taken out of the shutdown dialog. I then have to do vokeys-f1 to go into the
application chooser menu and arrow down to system dialogs so I can make sure
I turn off the shutdown dialog; it wouldn't go ahead and shut down but I
don't want it open. I have absolutely no idea why this works, and I realize
it's a slightly different problem than is being discussed, but I thought it
might help somebody.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."
