I believe it is mute speech but I will check on my Mac tomorrow.

David Griffith

-----Original Message-----
From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Judy Pryor
Sent: 15 April 2014 17:18
To: OS X & iOS Accessibility
Subject: Re: still having problems turning on speech on the mac

David should it be mute speech toggle or mute voice over toggle? Judy
On 13 Mar 2014, at 22:28, David Griffith <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> VO F8 for Voiceover Utility 
> Navigate to the Utility Table.
> Interact
> Cursor down to commanders.
> Un-interact.
> Vo Cursor across to keyboard commander tab and press Vo space to select
it.
> 
> Now you  can find a table to define shortcut keys for voiceover functions
.
> 
> 
> David Griffith
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of melissa tucker
> Sent: 13 March 2014 15:49
> To: OS X & iOS Accessibility
> Subject: Re: still having problems turning on speech on the mac
> 
> I got someone to help me get speech back on.  now, I want to go into
utility
> manager for the keyboard functions you were telling me about so I can set
a
> command up to turn speech on and off so I won't have this problem again.
> How do I get to utilities and the keyboard to do this?  thanks.
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2014, at 11:25 PM, "David Griffith"
<d.griff...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> It sounds like you may not have Track Pad commander turned on.
>> The first thing to try then is to ensure that you have Track pad
commander
>> turned on.
>> To do this you need to hold the vo keys down and make a rota gesture on
> the
>> track pad. That is move your finger and thumb as if you were turning a
> dial
>> in a clockwise direction whilst holding control and option.
>> 
>> Now try doing a three finger double tap again.
>> Hopefully this will restore speech.
>> You may have to try and do this a few times until you get the  double tap
>> rhythm right.
>> 
>> As soon you have regained speech I recommend you go straight to Voiceover
>> Utility and then interact with the Utility table and then go down to
>> commanders.  Uninteract with the table and navigate to the keyboard
>> commander tab.
>> Here you can set up a shortcut key to toggle Voiceover speech on and off.

>> 
>> You select a key,  in my case I used A and then hit the command button.
> You
>> then have to cursor through the categories of commands to find the
command
>> to toggle Voiceover speech on and off. It is important that you be clear
>> about what you are trying to achieve and what you are not trying to
> achieve
>> here as there are similar sounding options.
>> 1. You are not trying to mute and unmute sound on the computer.  This is
>> often  confused with muting speech. I noticed some incorrect advice about
>> using function keys for this earlier in the thread which will not help
you
>> in this situation.
>> 2.  You are not trying to turn Voiceover on or off.
>> 3. You are however trying to mute and unmute speech. You want to look for
>> the mute and unmute speech toggle, definitely not mute and unmute sound.
>> 
>> I can go and look for this myself in the command list tomorrow if you
> cannot
>> find it but  you should be able to find it if you work through the
>> categories systematically. Setting this key up does make life a lot
easier
>> for those occasions when the pesky track pad causes these types of
> problems.
>> If this ever happens to me now I just press right option  A on my
keyboard
>> and Voiceover speech comes straight back.
>> 
>> David Griffith
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
>> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of melissa tucker
>> Sent: 13 March 2014 02:42
>> To: & iOS Accessibility OS X
>> Subject: still having problems turning on speech on the mac
>> 
>> Even with earlier suggestions, I still can't get speech to turn on.  When
>> using command f5, I get the voice over prompt, the immediately after
that,
>> it says speech off.  I think I've messed up the functions on my track
pad,
>> because when doing the three finger double tap, the mac just makes a
noise
>> and no speech.  Any other suggestions on how I can get my mac back up and
>> running again, at least where I can hear it?  thanks.
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