You're in the right place. I have mine set to ten minutes on battery, and I think thirty minutes on power. I'll have to check; I don't remember having the problem you do, but maybe I did at one point which is why I extended my screen off time. I don't tend to read things for more than ten minutes, and my Mac is plugged in a lot, so I rarely have the screen go off nowadays. I'll check, though. On Aug 22, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > What setting do you use to turn your screen off after a while? On further > inspection of my settings I do not believe it is the screensaver that is > causing this, since it wasn't set to turn on until 30 minutes of inactivity > lapsed. I think it is System Preferences>Energy Saver>"Turn display off > after" that is causing this. I set it to one minute, and that's about the > time VO stops reading. It's interesting that this doesn't happen on your > system. Maybe it is application specific; I'm testing this in Safari. I'll > have to test in other apps and see if the problem persists; in the mean time > I guess I'll have to keep my screen on indefinitely, or at least for quite a > bit longer. > > Thanks, > > Grant > > On Aug 22, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It does indeed feel like a bug, and I'd email [email protected] about >> it, plus submit it to www.apple.com/feedback. In the meantime, I just don't >> use a screen saver; my screen is set to turn off after a while, but that >> doesn't interrupt VO's speaking. >> On Aug 22, 2014, at 7:34 PM, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm experiencing an odd problem with VoiceOver and wanted to see whether >>> there is any way around it. When I perform the "read contents of VoiceOver >>> cursor" command with VO+A or via a two-finger swipe down on the trackpad, >>> VoiceOver will begin a say all, but eventually stops due to the screensaver >>> kicking in. OS X does not seem to keep itself awake just because VO is >>> reading continuously, so it seems that it would be necessary to either >>> increase the time before the screen saver triggers, or else interrupt the >>> say all frequently to hit a key and keep the computer awake. >>> >>> Am I missing something? Is there some other command I should be using to >>> read continuously? This feels like a bug. >>> >>> Grant >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
