I've heard of lots of keyboard issues with Leopard and experienced them myself on at least two of My Macs. I think when sound goes away for me, it's a keyboard global freeze.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Command-F5/Restarting Computer does not turn VO on 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."
