Hi, It sounds like it was doing a big update and you just happened to open your laptop in the middle of the process. If it was the Mojave update, then, yes, it was a big one. When this sort of thing happens, Siri will be ineffectual. Try turning on VO the old fashioned way. If I recall correctly, you have a unit with the TouchBar. So, to turn on VO, hold down the cmd-key and press the finger-print sensor/power button three times quickly. If the Mac is busy, VO may take five seconds or so to turn itself on. If it's quiet, then regular volume up actions may not work, use VO along with the plus sign to increase volume.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 28, 2019, at 15:30, Petrus Tuerlings <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, Not sure if any one can give me a possible explanation for this as I can’t really give you much information. I opened the screen to my MacBook this morning and was faced with silence. I asked Siri to turn voice over off and back on again that didn’t help. Anything I pressed on the keyboard came back with a donk noise. I got my iPhone and opened Seeing AI and pointed it at the screen, the main menu was on the screen and seeing AI told me there was 3 new updates in the App Store. My Mac remained silent for about 10 minutes and suddenly I was able to log in and now it is back to normal. I did go into the App Store to install the updates and it asked me for my Apple ID password that it normally doesn’t do. So I am suspecting the Mac was performing some function that it didn’t want me to over ride. And I suspect it had something to do with the updates? Now I enjoy the song “the sound of silence” but not on my Mac. Sorry for the long email. Petrus Sent from Petrus' MacBook -- 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: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <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: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
