Hi Ted, You should set your function keys to work as software function keys first. The Mac defaults to hardware function. That way you won’t have to keep pressing the FN key along with the function keys to invoke the VoiceOver functions. To do this, go to System Preferences as follows: 1 Press VO M (VO = control and option keys together). that puts you in the menu bar on the Apple icon. Press VO down arrow until you reach system preferences and press enter. 2 In system preferences press tab and then type K to get to the keyboard button and then press VO spacebar to activate the button and enter the keyboard dialog. 3 Press VO spacebar on the keyboard tab and then VO arrow right until you reach the checkbox that says “use all F1, F2, F3 keys etc as standard function keys”. Press VO spacebar to check it. This is probably one of the most important settings you can make as a new Mac user in my opinion.
Now, to get VoiceOver to come up talking at logon: 1Go into system prefs again and VO spacebar on “the "users and groups” button. Pressing U will jump to that button. 2 in the “users, Groups, and login options” list, interact with the list and select login options. Now stop interacting with the list and VO right arrow all the way over to the “click the lock to make changes” button. 3 VO spacebar on the button . This password dialog doesn’t give any feedback, so just type your password and press enter. 4 Back in the login options dialog with the lock unlocked, VO arrow to “use VoiceOver in logon window” and VO spacebar to check it. Now VO arrow back over to “click the lock to prevent further changes” and press it. That’s it, Now VoiceOver will come up talking at logon. Now, as to the Volume gain issue. I think someone referred to it as "sound dock”. That might have been confusing. I think they meant sound ducking, which is a feature found in the VoiceOver Utility. It causes system sounds including music etc to “duck” whenever VoiceOver starts talking. To turn it off, do the following: 1 Press VO F8 to bring up the VoiceOver utility. Incidently, this is a good example of why you set the function keys to act as software function keys. If they were left as Hardware function keys, you’d have to add the FN key to that key combo and all other VO functions that use the function keys. 2 in the categories table, interact and select “sound”. Stop interacting with the table and VO arrow right to the “enable audio ducking” checkbox and uncheck it if necessary with VO spacebar.That should take care of the volume fluctuation problem. One other thing I would strongly suggest to you as a new Mac user is to study the “getting started guide” and explore the other options in the VoiceOver help system. Pressing VO +H brings up the VoiceOver help system. Keyboard help is especially useful for learning the keyboard and all the VoiceOver command shortcuts, and the getting started guide is a definitive manual for voiceover that is well laid out and easy to read. It’ll answer a million questions. Good Luck with the Mac. On 01 Apr 2015, at 7:51 pm, ted phillips <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> users and groups 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. 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? Thanks all and I hope >> you all don’t mind me learning from you. >> >> 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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
