You are all missing some key points here. When you suggest mutimg, that also mute every other sound the computer might make, including playng media, email alerts, message alerts, notification alerts, etc. There is a solution. It is to set up a commander. I’m not sure of the exact way to do this, but you can set up a keyboard commander to do just about anything on your Mac in and out of voiceover. Turning voiceover on or off or muted the voiceover speech defeats the purpose. Paul wants to keep the visual VoiceOver abilities working, but just turn off the speech and let every other audio element come through. The way to do it is, as I said, set up a commander to mute the voiceover speech only, just like the triple finger triple tap on a trackpad would do.
> On Nov 16, 2025, at 9:03 AM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am running the latest Ventura on my 1997 iMac. I cannot see the screen and > so am totally reliant on VoiceOver. > Can I set up a keyboard shortcut to toggle speech on and off, like the 3 > finger double tap on IOS? > Ocasionally speech becomes muted by hitting the wrong keyboard keys and I > have to seek sighted help to get VO working again. > I recall setting up such a keyboard shortcut in the past but I seem to have > deleted it. > Many thanks … Paul Hopewell > > -- > 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/69E082EC-5C4C-41C4-81C4-64AAE843ED47%40hopewell.org.uk. -- 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/2FB939EE-A686-4889-91B2-2221200D38BA%40noisynotes.com.
