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.
