Hi Paul, The Voiceover Settings activity is meant to be your default activity for applications where no other activity is being used. Changes you make in the Voiceover utility itself are saved to the voiceover settings activity. In other words, you do not need a separate default activity. Just set the settings that you wish in the main voiceover utility. Then, when you are setting up your activities, the only settings that you need to set up are those that you want to be different from the defaults.
For example, I have everything just the way I like it in VoiceOver utility. From there, I created my first activity called web. I turned on single key navigation and set it to use QuickNav by default. Now when I go into safari, everything else is the same as the Voiceover settings activity, except for the few things that I specifically changed. This is one of the things I miss most since going back to snow leopard, and I can't wait to come back to Lion when the next update comes out and fixes some things. I hope this explanation makes sense. Justin On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote: Hello, On Lion I have two activities defined, one called readit for reading continuous text and the other called default for everything else. Moving to Finder automatically switches to the default activity. What I do not understand is that quite often I am in an activity called "VoiceOver settings" which has undesirable verbosity. this activity is not defined in my activities list and so I cannot delete or modify it. Any ideas on why this is happening and what I can do to get rid of the VoiceOver settings activity? Many thanks. Paul Hopewell <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
