Re: Recovering from Voiceover problems

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello David, Many thanks for your Email. I too find it too easy to accidentally mute VoiceOver by accidental touches of the magic track pad and so like you have it safely out of harms way. I did set up a hotkey to mute/unmute VoiceOver as you describe. However in my case VoiceOver seemed to ha

RE: Recovering from Voiceover problems

2012-09-03 Thread David Griffith
I have found the Magic trackpad a nightmare for muting Voiceover with the slightest accidental touch. Listening to a David woodbridge podcast it seems that this is a problem other users also experience so this does not seem a problem confined to me. So I suspect that the Magic trrackpad is trippi

Re: Recovering from VoiceOver problems

2012-09-03 Thread Robert Hill
One other thing to try, as long as you're using the Magic Trackpad, do a three-finger double tap to unmute VoiceOver, and see if that works. I have heard that that will solve the problem. Bob Hill On Sep 3, 2012, at 6:54 AM, christopher hallsworth wrote: > This is a good guess, but it sound

Re: Recovering from VoiceOver problems

2012-09-03 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi there, I've not seen much of this under Mountain Lion. However I find that pressing vo-cmd-f8 then enter (in other words bringing up the "welcome to boiceover" dialog, and then from this launching voiceover often resolves such issues. Dónal On 3 Sep 2012, at 11:54, christopher hallsworth

Re: Recovering from VoiceOver problems

2012-09-03 Thread christopher hallsworth
This is a good guess, but it sounds like a corruption somewhere within the operating system. How frequent this can happen is anybody's guess since I only had my Macbook Pro now running Mountain Lion after upgrading from Lion for two weeks and had no problems at all, not even VoiceOver hanging. I