Basically, when voiceover is off, it’s completely off, and you as a blind person can’t use the features of VO.
when voiceover is on, but speech is muted, if you have a braille display attached, you can still use that, and magnification is still on, so if you have partial vision, you can use it, it just won’t talk. On the i phone, you can turn speech off with a three finger double tap-it’s very easy to do this by mistake! Doing the gesture again toggles it back on again. hth, Caitlyn > On Jul 22, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Eileen Scrivani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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] <mailto:[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] > <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.
