Hi Ricardo Yes voiceover is doing a number of things differently since yesterday. I don't know whether it is related or not, but I did download and install dropbox and I, for the first time, did a backup to time capsule. The different things I notice with voiceover, apart from what I mentioned: 1. When I am in the dock after moving along the dock, when I try to go back to desktop with control option shift D, voiceover just repeats the item it is on in the dock. It does move the voiceover cursor and keyboard focus back to desktop (I can verify that with voiceover plus F3 and F4 respectively); 2. When I am in Safari on Pages (I had no problems with this before), sometimes when I am going through the contents of the page, voiceover just makes a clicking noise on the links instead of reading them. When I move off them and back on, it then reads the link; 3. When I am arrowing through the menus in various built-in applications sometimes (not consistent all the time but only since yesterday) voiceover will start to read the menu item but cut off after maybe one syllable. Arrowing down through the items will do the same, partly read the item but again, not all the time; 4. Again not consistent, occasionally it refuses to talk to me at the login screen despite the setting being enabled for it to do so; and 5. The date and time reads in a different voice and seems to take awhile (I am not sure if this is a recent change or whether voiceover has always done this), as far as I can work out it is using the default voice that the mac came with.
I was going very well I thought, until yesterday, having just had the mac for about a week. Is this fixable, being that a number of stupid things are happening, or is it a case of taking the mac back to default (no idea how to do) and starting over? Appreciate any advice. Kind Regards Janine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 11:54 AM To: Macvisionaries Subject: Re: Initial voiceover at desktop Hi, besides it saying something different, does your Mac or Voiceover act any differently in the finder or, anywhere else after login? Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 15, 2013, at 4:35 PM, The Smiths <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The initial voice at the desktop when I first turn my macbook pro on has changed. I don't know what I have done. After start up the voiceover used to say "Finder Desktop Macintosh HD selected volume" now it says "Finder Desktop Desktop". When I check where the cursor is with VO F3, it says "Macintosh HD is in the voiceover cursor". When I check my keyboard focus with VO F4, it says "nothing has keyboard focus". Does this explain why it is saying Finder Desktop Desktop? Does anyone know how do I get it back to saying the original message Finder Desktop Macintosh HD selected volume? > > Regards > Janine > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
