If you have a braille display, you can use space with M to mute voiceover. > On Apr 5, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can also use the keyboard commander. For example, I have it set so > option-m mutes sounds and speech. To do this: > > * Open the VoiceOver Utility and choose Commanders from the Categories table. > * Select the Keyboard Commander tab, be sure the commander is on by checking > the checkbox, and move past the table to the Add button. Activate that button. > * You will be placed on a text field, even if VoiceOver doesn't tell you so. > Press the key to be used (such as M), then vo-right to the menu button. > * In that menu is a list of commands, sorted into categories. I believe the > item you want, Mute VoiceOver, is in the Sounds submenu. Once you find it, > hit enter. > * Hit option-m to make sure things worked (it's a toggle, so hitting it again > will bring VO back). If it worked, you can close the Utility. If not, let the > list know and we'll try to figure out what happened. >> On Apr 5, 2015, at 5:16 AM, BBS <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Pam. If I remember correctly, with track pad commander on, you could >> double tap with three fingers on the trackpad to mute Voiceover just like >> double tapping with three fingers to mute it on an iPhone. If I'm wrong >> about this, someone correct me. >> >> Shawn >> Sent From My White Macbook >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamela Francis" <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 1:12 AM >> Subject: Keystroke form muting voiceover >> >> >> Hi everyone, >> I was attempting to listen to a service over the Internet this afternoon. In >> so doing Alex continually seemed to want to give me every notification I >> would never have gotten had I been doing something I could've gotten away >> from or been able to repeat. Normally I don't mind. However in cases like >> this, is there a keystroke to mute voiceover until such a service or meeting >> is over? I hit the control key to shut him up, however he has since earned >> the name disrespectful Alex. >> >> Pam Francis >> >> -- >> 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>. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <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>.
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