Oh this explains it. I suppressed most of Mission control since it was 
constantly conflicting with other keyboard activity. I don't really want to 
enable all that again since I don't think Mission Control serves much purpose. 
I'll just open the dashboard from the apps like i've been doing I guess.

On Sep 12, 2014, at 11:21 PM, Colin Matthews <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi Deb!
> Maybe your F12 is unchecked under keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard pref's!
> Open system pref's and go to keyboard, select the keyboard shortcuts tab and 
> in the table select Mission Control!
> Then in the next table see if F12 for dash board is unchecked!
> HTH Colin
> 
> On 13 Sep 2014, at 03:46, Joe Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> That's odd, mine works fine...
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Deb Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've never gotten F12 to open the dashboard. FN F12 changes my volume and 
>>> F12 alone does nothing. 
>>> It's a well documented command so I'm not sure what i'm missing.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi, no problem.
>>>> To go to the weather widget, press f12. You may want to close out 
>>>> calculator with VO command escape.
>>>> Press return to close that widget. Keep closing widgets if you need to 
>>>> until you hear weather.
>>>> Once you hear weather, if it is the right city, it will announce the 
>>>> current temperature, you can also get a 6 day forecast.
>>>> There is a group right beside the current weather item. VO right arrow and 
>>>> interact with it to see the 6 day forecast.
>>>> Hope this has been helpful.
>>>> 
>>>> Matt Dierckens
>>>> Macintosh Trainer
>>>> Blind Access Training
>>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
>>>> Work email:[email protected]
>>>> Personal email: [email protected]
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 16:05, Gene Baroni <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> please either tell me about dashboard or provide me with a link to 
>>>>> instruct me on how to use it. I looked at it and could not find much 
>>>>> except the calculator. It started out by telling me the temperature but 
>>>>> that was all I could find even after I went threw the menus.
>>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I personally use the dashboard to get my city's weather. Wuick and easy.
>>>>>> Matt Dierckens
>>>>>> Macintosh Trainer
>>>>>> Blind Access Training
>>>>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>>>>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
>>>>>> Work email:[email protected]
>>>>>> Personal email: [email protected]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 14:17, Gene Baroni <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>         I am looking for a  good weather app for my mac mini  but I 
>>>>>>> didn't find any good ones in the app  store. Any ideas?
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