Try pressing VO-shift-d to take you to your Desktop. Sometimes, depending on various things, VO focus may be stuck in one of the startup processes so telling it to go to the Desktop will bring you to the Finder and then everything will work as it should.
Later... On 2012-01-21, at 9:26 AM, Jennifer Perdue wrote: > Sometimes when I turn on my computer it sends me to a screen in which it asks > me for my password. I enter it and then it takes me to the main screen where > I see the icons but voiceover does not start and I cannot command it to start > and I cannot use the apple menu because it's not there to shut it downs I > have to shut it down by holding the on/off button down. > > It doesn't do it every time I turn the computer on. it's just once and a > wile but it gets annoying. Any suggestions? Thanks and have a great weekend. > > Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks > On Jan 21, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Allison, >> >> To change the language in which your Mac runs, go to System Preferences and >> select the Language&Text pane. Choose the Language tab, and in the table of >> languages, use Option-Up Arrow to drag Spanish to the top. You'll then need >> to restart your machine for the change to take effect. You'll also need to >> download the Spanish voices you want. >> >> You change the system voice in System Preferences, too. This time, you >> select the Speech pane and you'll find a popup button to choose your system >> voice. >> >> You can also change the default voice at any time with VO-Cmd-Down arrow, as >> long as that was the last thing you did in the Speech Attribute rotor. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 21 Jan 2012, at 12:39, Allison Manzino wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I hope you are doing well. I was wondering if anyone knew the procedure for >>> changing the language on the Mac to Spanish. I want to practice my spanish >>> and thought it would be fun to have Monica or some other voice in Spanish. >>> WHen I tried this with my Iphone Karen is still the default voice. Even >>> though I have changed the region to Spain and the language in both the >>> roter and international settings, Karen still comes up. THis also happens >>> on the Mac but not with Karen with Fiona. Can anyone help? Thank you in >>> advance for any assistance. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Allison >>> >>> My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- 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.
