Hello and welcome, First let me say this group is invaluable. Second, I would advise initially for you to almost totally concentrate on using your Mac for whatever you normally would have used windows for. None of us here our windows bashers, we all respect the fact that it has its place. However the platforms are very different. The learning curve is definitely there. At least with your Mac, it's easier to fix on your own if you should happen to mess up a setting, or become skittish than would be if you were in windows. Dive into it, use it, ask away. We have all been there. In addition to applevis.com you might also want to check out maccessibility.com they too have very informative podcasts. Any of us will also do what we can to help you.
Pam Francis On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: Welcome to the family! :P See below for my responses. > On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:51 PM, ted phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all. My name is Ted Phillips and I am a very recent Mac convert. I just > got a new macbook pro running yocemity and one of my chief uses for the > macbook is to record music using logic Pro X. I do have a couple of > questions that concern me a little though. > First, How do I get voiceover to run automatically at logon? I can’t seem > to get it to work. Open System Preferences and choose the Users and Groups button. Just past the toolbar is a list of users; down arrow on that list until you hear "Login Options". VO-right until you find the "Use VoiceOver on the logon screen" and check it (you may have to activate the "Lock" button at the end of the window first). > Second, there seems to be some up and down auto-gain with the volume using > voice-over especially when going to different programs. It only happens on > the internal speakers but it is noticeable. Does that mean there is a > problem with my macbook? I doubt it, but given that your machine is still new, it's worth heading to an Apple Store to get it checked out. I've never noticed this problem, and I can't think of anything that would cause it. Unless your hands are covering the speakers somehow? They are near the keyboard on some models. > Thanks all and I hope you all don’t mind me learning from you. Of course, that's why we're here. :) Ask away, and don't forget to check out www.applevis.com for tons more resources, including a page just for VoiceOver users new to the Mac. > > Ted Phillips > > -- > 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.
