Robert, She doesn't want to completely disable Voiceover. She just wants to mute it. Your solution certainly would work, but it might be overkill. The thing is, if she needed to command+tab to another window, say to take notes or something, then she'd still have no speech. Great suggestion, but, I'm just not so sure it would be the most comprable.
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: ROBERT CARTER To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 9:03 AM Subject: Re: Keystroke form muting voiceover Hi, You can simply press command+f5 to toggle VoiceOver off and toggle it back on with command+f5 when the service is over. Robert Carter On Apr 5, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Pamela Francis <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone, I plan to listen to a continuation of the services I was listening to yesterday, this morning. Prior to going to the site, I will check out the suggestions given to me here to see if they work before I allow Alex to be disrespectful again. I'm truly surprised there is not a native keystroke to mmute voiceover as there is a trackpad gesture. I feel an email going to Apple accessibility. Let's hope it doesn't take them six updates to get it done. Pam Francis On Apr 5, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Daniel McGee <[email protected]> wrote: Is there no actual keystroke to mute VO by default then? On 5 Apr 2015, at 13:06, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: 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]> 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]> To: <[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]. 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. 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