ah, I should have thought of that but, but vo was working everywhere else except for when I restarted after trying to get vo back up after turning it off to see if I could read the window. I found that if I just force quite ITunes though, it works fine.
----- 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: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:18 PM Subject: Re: blank screen during nano setup: Hi David, I can read your posts at the Mail Archive site before they show up in my mail box, so I'm replying to an earlier post. It sounds as though you hit the glitch that Lou gave a fix for after Simon's catastrophic first experience of having VoiceOver stop talking. I've checked that his commands work in Leopard, for my MacBook, and am pasting them in: The post was titled "Command-F5/Restarting the Computer does not turn VoiceOver On". A fix was given to get VoiceOver starting when the voice stopped after a series of "busy" messages. Try this: Because the computer was not accepting the Command-F5 keyboard command, the only way to turn VO back on was to use the mouse to click the VO "On" button. This happened several times while I had no sighted assistance around -- *** VERY FRUSTRATING! *** I figured there must be a way to turn VO back on again without sighted assistance. Here is what I did: 1. Press Control-F2 to move the mouse to the Menu Bar. 2. Press the Down Arrow to open the Apple Menu. 3. Quickly type "sy" to jump to System Preferences. 4. Press Return to open System Preferences. 5. Press Control-F2 to return to the Menu Bar. 6. Press "v" to jump to the "View" menu. 7. Press Down Arrow to open the View Menu. 8. Press "u" to jump to "Universal Access." 9. Press Return to open the Universal Access Pane of System Preferences. 10. Press Tab twice to select the Voice Over On/Off controls. 12. Press Left Arrow to select the Voice Over "On" radio button. At this point, Voice Over starts talking again and (miraculously) Command-F5 starts working again. Cheers, Esther On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:43 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > Hi ester, no matter what I do, I get silent ITunes. In other words, > vo > speaks nothing. > > ----- 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: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:30 PM > Subject: Re: blank screen during nano setup: > > > Hi David, > > Are there any messages in the Player Status area? When I ran the set > up (with an initial sync, but with less than the capacity of the > player in my iTunes library), I monitored what was happening by using > VO-up arrow twice to get to the Status Window. (Actually, I just > quickly use VO-right arrow until I found this, but I think if you VO- > up twice you hear "Full Volume Button and then the Status Window. > Alternatively, if you VO-right, this comes after the "Previous", > "Play", and "Next" buttons). You have to move off and on this window > to hear current status as things update. If you get "Busy" messages > you may not be able to move your cursor this way. What happens now. > Does the window say "Idle"? Could you eject the iPod in the source > table (Command-E) and, (only) if it then disappears from the source > list, unplug the USB connector and reconnect it? Then you could stop > interacting in the source table and VO-right twice to see whether you > can detect the device again. You should come onto the Summary page > that gives you the serial number, device properties and capacity, and > current usage information. There will also be an options section > where you can check the boxes for your sync preferences and check that > the box to enable spoken menus is enabled. > You'll probably have checked: > > Open iTunes when this iPod is connected > Sync only checked songs and videos > Enable spoken menus for accessibilty. > > and leave the options to manually manage music and videos and enable > disk use unchecked. > > Once you make the changes, VO-right to the button to "Update". Don't > sync yet because you need to select/check the content you want synced > on the tabs fro Music, Podcasts, etc. > > At that point you can go through the tab setups for Music, Movies, TV > Shows, Podcasts, etc and set your preferences for what to sync. VO- > right to each tab and press (VO-space) to select. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:45 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having a bit of a time setting up m nano. I have told it not to >> snc >> anything but when it goes through setup, it sas bus for a while and >> then vo >> reads nothing in the I"Tunes screen. >> > > > >
