Hi Joseph, Thanks for this, that’s useful to know.
I’m the only one using this Mac (I disabled the guest account), so I’ll probably just wait a few seconds and enter my password as I don’t have several accounts to cycle through. VO does come on when I do. Alternatively, I might turn off File Vault if it gets too annoying! Cheers, Ed > On 18 Oct 2014, at 16:39, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > If you are booting with file vault the answer is no. Because VO cannot talk > at that low level. When you boot, Several seconds after the startup chime, > press Command F5 and you will hear a beep. Type in your account name. Note, > nothing will speak. Press enter and you will hear 2 beeps. Now type in your > password. The same thing, nothing will talk. Press enter and you will hear 3 > beeps. This means that you are now booting. Depending on how you have your > system set, VO will probably start talking once the system is booted. > >> On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Edward Green <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Apologies if this has been posted before, I’ve tried to check but the >> Yosemite traffic has obviously been fairly busy. >> >> I’ve enabled file vault after installing Yosemite, meaning that I need to >> enter a password when I turn on my Macbook. However, Voiceover isn’t >> speaking on the login screen. >> >> Can I change this somewhere? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ed >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
