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 <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. It has > restarted itself on a couple of occasions back when I was using Lion, but > this has been all but eliminated in Mountain Lion. > Just my thoughts anyway. > Sent from my mac > > > > On 3 Sep 2012, at 10:53, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 on an iMac. This is set up with a login >> password. I use an external hard disk for time Machine and SuperDuper! >> backups. I also use a magic trackpad. >> >> Recently I have had problems with VoiceOver hanging and my not being able to >> restart it without sighted help. On both occasions my iMac had gone to sleep >> and on waking up VoiceOver would no longer talk. So I had to power off and >> restart. VoiceOver would then work fine for entering my password at login >> time, and then other system startup such as a script announcing the software >> level would work fine. Alas though VoiceOver remained silent. My sighted >> wife then told me that the system displayed information that VoiceOver was >> active but with speech muted. VO + PF8 would not open the VoiceOver utility >> and Command+PF5 would not shutdown VoiceOver. So with sighted help I opened >> the voiceOver utility from the applications menu and unchecked the box in >> the speech section titled "speech muted". Again we tried to stop and restart >> VoiceOver with Command+PF5 but with no joy. However a system shutdown and >> restart caused VoiceOver to work normally again. >> >> It is unclear how the speech muted check box became checked. It all seemed >> to happen while the iMac was in sleep mode. >> >> My question is how could I have recovered VoiceOver without sighted help? On >> a previous occasion when i had this problem and my wife was not available I >> recovered VoiceOver by booting from a month old SuperDuper! backup and then >> restoring that backup onto my iMac hard disk. that all took a long time and >> seemed a sledge hammer to crack a nut! >> >> Using the VoiceOver utility and the keyboard commander I have set up hotkeys >> to mute/unmute sound, mute/unmute speech, and mute/unmute VoiceOver. Alas >> these did not work when VoiceOver was hung with speech off. Also I am >> unclear about the difference between mute speech and mute VoiceOver and >> which, if either, relates to the speech muted check box in the VoiceOver >> utility. >> >> I would appreciate any thoughts on the above and in particular any thoughts >> on how to recover from a hung VoiceOver in a less drastic way than restoring >> a SuperDuper! backup. >> >> 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 an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> 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 an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > 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 an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. 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