Hi Eileen,
The option to mute VoiceOver is available because there are some users that wish to keep VO active, but don’t want it to abruptly interrupt audio, such as videos or music. Primarily, however, I believe it is an option because there are people who use Braille with VoiceOver, and don’t want the speech aspect. Imagine a classroom or office situation, where you lack headphones but have a Braille display. This would be useful then so VO speech isn’t blaring out of the speakers of your computer. HTH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eileen Scrivani Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Fw: VoiceOver On, Speech Off, on a MacBook Pro This is interesting!! Can someone please explain to me what the difference is between VoiceOver being on and Speach On/off? I get this a lot on my I Phone 6, but I haven’t encountered it on the Mac Book Pro. And, can any one explain to me why when Voice Over is On you’d have to unmute it? It just doesn’t make sense to me. I always thought that once Voice Over is on its there to be used with an option to stop/pause it from reading or speaking, but I never realized it could be muted. . Sorry if these are super basic questions, but I’m new to the Mac and not getting used to it. Thanks for any clarifications. Eileen From: Matthew Dierckens <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VoiceOver On, Speech Off, on a MacBook Pro Good morning Christine, Once voiceover is on, if you do a three finger double tap on your trackpad, you should hear the phrase, "voiceover and muted." good luck. Matt Dierckens Certified Assistive technology specialist Macintosh trainer Canadian phone: 5199629140 U.S. Phone: 5734011018 Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2015, at 06:33, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good morning, all. > > I have a MacBook Pro that I booted up this morning. It didn’t speak the usual > “voiceover is running” greetings, so I did a command f 5 to turn voiceover > on. I was told that VO was on, but speech was off. Is there an easy way to > get speech back on? I’m not sure how it got turned off in the first place, > but, since it says nothing once it tells me that speech is off, the machine > is not usable at this point. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kristeen > > -- > 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. -- 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.
