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
>>> 
>>> 
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