it sounds like some process that voiceover depends on is going defunct and finally resulting in voiceover resetting. I see that here a lot with chrome on my OS X Lion system. It turns out to be another process that depends on spottily and when that goes non-compus menus, voiceover locks up and eventually resets.
not sure this is happening in your case, but taking at console in the all messages table might be revealing. -eric On Jan 4, 2018, at 2:26 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > It seems each week a new irritation is popping up. I have no idea if they are > related, if it is High Sierra-based, that my computer is over three years > old, or what. > 1. I am constantly receiving “failure to deliver” messages in Apple Mail, > ostensibly from Apple, for emails that do go through. > 2. I receive “busy” messages constantly when navigating web sites, and it is > becoming increasingly persistent. > 3. When the “busy” craziness freezes the MacBook, if I wait about ten seconds > to fifteen seconds, there is a click, I hear “VoiceOver on” and things go > back to normal. This happens in different applications. > It is starting to interfere with my productivity. > FYI, my computer was recently fully diagnosed by Apple and was deemed in fine > shape. I am running the latest software, and the only other thing I suppose > is worth mentioning is that I am occasionally receiving notifications of > remaining memory, which is currently at 16 GB. > Christine > > -- > 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. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com 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. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com 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.