This must be a recovery issue as I’ve never experienced or heard of anyone having issues in the main Mac itself. BTW, the next thing you should have encountered was Pitch.
> On Sep 15, 2025, at 19:17, Rollin Hippler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've encountered this situation a number of times. With sighted assistance I > learned that the problem is when you use VO+SHIFT+COMMAND and then > left-arrow, the VoiceOver options menu is overlaid with another window, thus > causing VO to loose focus. Once this happens, it seems there is no way to > get VO to speak again. I don't remember what is in the new window, but my > solution to get around this was to press and hold the power button on the Mac > Mini M1 until it shuts off, wait a few seconds then power it back on. > > > I encountered this situation because the VO volume at start up on my system > is too low and I tried to increase it using the VO+SHIFT +COMMAND keys, which > brings up the VO options menu focused on rate. Holding that combination then > pressing the left-arrow key causes this mess. > > > Once my frustration level with this situation got to me, I contacted Apple > Accessibility. They were able to observe this behavior, but were unable to > provide a solution. However, they did suggest a work-around, which was to > connect an external speaker to the head phone jack and use the volume control > on that to get around this problem. So I did, and no more worries! > > > > On 9/15/2025 2:56 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> Don't try this at home unless you're very brave! >> >> >> I got my machine to go into Recovery Mode with VoiceOver. I went through the >> whole re-installation dialog, and decided I wanted to speed things up a >> little in the VoiceOver department. To do this, I held down Shift+VO+Command >> and use the Right Arrow key to navigate the VoiceOver adjustment menu to the >> Rate portion. I then used the VO+Up Arrow to adjust it a couple clicks >> faster. Then I decided I wanted to find out what was next on that menu, so I >> pressed Shift+VO+Command+Right Arrow again, and everything came to a >> grinding halt. No Voiceover, no nothing. Of course, I don't have the TV >> hooked up yet, and there's no one here to help me with it, so I just started >> over and decided I wouldn't press that key combination again! LOL. >> >> >> But my curiosity got the better of me, and yes, I did try it again, and yes, >> it did fail again in exactly the same way. >> >> >> I don't know that this is a problem when MacOS is actually up and running, >> but in the Recovery Mode screen, it definitely is. >> > > -- > 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 view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/6aee4602-9d2e-44e3-a167-2410debf5a94%40rollineh.net. -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7DD09302-75BA-4C6D-A69B-A8627DFC3F50%40gmail.com.
