Hi Tim, You just made my day!!!
The problem is that I manage to do this to myself about once a year, by which time, I've already forgotten how I disabled it the last time. :) So, I'm very happy to know there's a way to just turn this feature off. Cheers, Donna > On Aug 17, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > Mouse-keys can be toggled on and off by pressing the Option key five times. > If your keyboard is getting tired, sometimes the Option key sort of presses > multiple times when you have it down which will thus turn your mouse-keys on. > The easiest thing to do to fix this issue is to turn off the five presses of > the Option key feature. To turn this feature off, go to System Preferences, > Accessibility, then select Mouse and racked from the table. Stop interacting > with the table and navigate right to the Options button. In the dialog that > appears, uncheck the item that talks about toggling Mouse-keys on/off with > the Option key. Now, as long as mouse-keys are off, that toggle will not > turn them on. The only way you'll be able to turn Mouse-keys on will be to > check the box in the Accessibility pane. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Aug 17, 2016, at 07:37, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Can somebody please tell me how to turn those stupid things off? And while > I'm at it, is there a way to permanently disable them? > Thanks, > Donna > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
