OK this is a well known problem and there is an easy way out.
1. Bring up Window Chooser with VO F2 pressed twice.
2. Make sure you are on the sign in to App Store window.
3. Tab to the Apple ID field.
You will probably get no feedbac but d not worry.
4. Hit VO command f5 to make sure you are focussed on this field.
5. Do a virtual mouse click with shift VO and space bar.
6. You should now be focussed in a completely accessible window where
you can type in your ID and then tab to your password field and then tab
to the default button to sign into the App Store.
It should be plain sailing from there.
David Griffith
On 15/10/2014 13:08, Kristeen Hughes wrote:
Thank you for all of the helpful information. I did go into recovery mode and
repair disk permissions. It took about 15 minutes. It did not help the problem.
I then went into recovery mode and chose to reinstall the OS. I am now stuck at
signing into the App Store. It has been on that screen since about 11:30 last
night. is there anything I can do to get past that screen?
Kristeen Hughes
On Oct 14, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tim,
Gee!!! Why didn't I think of that solution? Thanks for posting this. I do know
that I needed to use the FN key to access some of the VO speech output. I'm
still learning so much after a year of owning my MacBook Air. It's amazing that
there are so many solutions or just one if you think out of the box. I know
with time that I'll add more items to my bag of tricks when I need to
troubleshoot. For now, I'll leave it up to the awesome experts on the list.
Thanks again for the keystroke.
Best,
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 14, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Concerning the raising of the volume in Recovery mode, you can often press
VO-cmd-left three times then VO-cmd-up a few times and the volume will
increase. This is a normal VO command that can be used most of the time. The
VO-cmd-left/right moves you through the Rate, Voice, Intonation, Volume and
Pitch and the VO-cmd-up/down changes those levels on the fly.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Oct 14, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I can really feel your frustrations. Fortunately, my MacBook Air was an easy
fix at the Apple Store today. One thing I want to add, when booting up into
recovery or other dianostic modes on the computer, voiceover can be access with
the command-F5. The voice is not Alex, but some other boyish voice, but at
least there is accessibility to the information. The volume is low and it can't
be increased. Just letting you know about this pointer. HTH. Good luck and you
may need to contact Apple Care.
Best,
Eileen
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Kristeen,
I don't know if this is accessible, but in looking up keyboard shortcuts for
starting up a Mac if something's not working properly, you can try holding down
D at start up. It will start the apple hardware test, which may tell you
something about your drives if they are connected.
Rachel.
On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
Earlier today I noticed that my computer could not see my two external drives
which were connected via USB. I decided a reboot was in order, since most of
the time this fixes that type of an issue. There was no voice over when the
computer restarted. I was unable to tell whether the computer booted all the
way or not because of having no speech. I tried rebooting several more times,
but the result was still the same.I disconnected all peripherals, and was able
to boot into recovery mode. I went into disk utilities and repaired the disk.
There seemed to be no problem with the disc. The computer will still not reboot.
Is there anything else I can try in recovery mode? Is there any other way I can
reboot the computer that will give me other diagnostic tools? Thank you for any
help anyone can provide.
Kristeen Hughes
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