Actually, I accidentally solved my own problem by trying the VO-Command-right-arrow and as soon as I started the cycle and it hit the voice option for Alex, Alex was back! Hopefully I'll be able to solve most of the problems I create for myself in the future as easily but quicker, before I send frantic messages for help everywhere!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:53 PM To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: New user, accidentally turned speech off Hi Marcia, If you turned speech off rather than VoiceOver (i.e., you can't use Command+F5 to toggle VoiceOver back on), then you may either have turned the speech volume way down, or muted your audio by pressing the F10 key. (It might be Fn+F10, depending on how you have set up your keyboard preferences). If the volume is all the way down, you can get control of your pitch, intonation, rate, and volume with VO-Command+arrow keys, where you cycle through the option settings with Control+Option+Command+Right or Left arrow, and adjust the values with VO-Command-Up or Down arrow. It you muted all you audio by mistake, pressing either the F12 key (or Fn+F12, depending on your setup), will take the volume back up. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 8, 2011, at 09:35, Marcia Yale wrote: > I am a new user of a brand new MacBook Air and I was setting up my > VoiceOver preferences and managed to turn speech off! I know I never > consciously turned on the trackpad commander, so I am unable to > restart speech using that method. Is there a key combination that will > fix my trouble, or somewhere that I can read and follow directions to > get back into that part of the utility to fix it? > > > Marcia Yale > "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day > I can hear her breathing."--Arundhati Roy > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
