Hi, Did you try pressing command F5 4 times? This seems to jump start VO. I haven't seen this in Mountain Lion but, I remember having this issue early on in Lion.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:34 AM, William Windels <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Lisette, > That's also a good qquestion and yes, I could hear the signals when I was > changing the volume bbut this gives no solution. > > A friend of my has also reported that voiceover could hang up in mounten lion > and could e.g. killed in the terminal but for this, you need sighted > assistance or a possibbility to login in to your mac witth ssh to see wich > pit is voiceover. > In global; if there are situations here with voiceover that isn't responsive > anymore , it would be nice to hear of. > > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > > Op 30-jul.-2012 om 10:01 heeft Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > >> Hi William >> I'm not trying to be funny, but have you tried turning up the volume on your >> speakers? I know Apple devices can sometimes turn the volume down. It >> happened on my iPhone a few times. Have you tried plugging in a head set to >> see if the sound works there? >> You can all shoot me now, but it's worth asking. >> If you hear other Mac sounds, then that's not your problem and higher minds >> than mine will need to step in. >> >> Lisette >> >> On 30/07/2012, at 6:41 PM, William Windels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> Yesterday afternoon, I had a strange situation on my macbook air with 10.8 >>> installed. >>> Voiceover was doing strange and I decided to restart voiceover but this >>> wouldn't work. >>> I have done a normal reboot but voiceover wouldn't work also. >>> Then, I decided to do a permission and disc repair from inside the recovery >>> partition and all (normal) errors where repaired. >>> Then, after rebooting back in mountain lion, I had still no sound and no >>> braille (connected with usb) >>> My girlfriend sqaw that the voiceover-utility program was opened so, >>> voiceover was active or not? >>> >>> After some tries, without succes, I decided to restore my system with >>> time-machine. >>> This seems a long work in progress since the restore should take about 35 >>> hours, (seems not normal I think). >>> Now, I was thinking to do a hardwaretest with (command)+d at startup but >>> this should be without voiceover? >>> >>> My questions are: >>> 1. Has it happend with others that voiceover wasn't reacting at all in 10.8 >>> with the latest macbook air (11 inch) and if so, what you have done? >>> 2. Could I have done or could I do more tests myself then : disc and >>> permission repair? >>> 3. Could it be normal that a time-machine restore takes about 35 hours and >>> if not, what could be possible problem(s)? >>> 4. A hardwaretest with command+d at startup could be a good option bu I >>> supose I can't do it myself as blind macuser? are perhaps there are some >>> workarounds? >>> >>> I really hope someone can give some hints / ideas? >>> >>> Thank you for the reactions and have a nice day! >>> >>> Kind regards >>> William Windels >>> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- 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.
