You might accidentally have muted VO from the trackpad. I find that if my kitties' tails decide to swipe across the trackpad, they unerringly mute VO. Ok, sometimes it's my sleeve that does it. LOL Anyhow, it's a three-finger-double-tap to toggle on and off. There might be other issues, but that's most often been the culprit for me.
HTH, Teresa "Visualize whirled peas." On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Folks, we may have addressed this earlier, I don't remember. However, I just > had a somewhat frustrating experience, and I think I somehow did it to > myself. I was writing in TextEdit using a Focus 40 braille display. All of a > sudden, VoiceOver said Speech Off, and I couldn't get it back for a while. > Luckily, it continued to run the braille display. The track pad wouldn't turn > on either. VO plus f8 didn't work either. Restarting the computer didn't work > either because the speech immediately turned itself off when the computer > came back up. I finally got smart and did VO spacebar and typed voice. That > brought up the utility, although it didn't have anything on the braille > display except the word voice. Luckily, I was able to use the braille display > to get the speech back. > > If this ever happens again, is there a keyboard command which apparently I > typed somehow to get the speech back? > > Regards, > Gigi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
