Hi, Concerning the raising of the volume in Recovery mode, you can often press VO-cmd-left three times then VO-cmd-up a few times and the volume will increase. This is a normal VO command that can be used most of the time. The VO-cmd-left/right moves you through the Rate, Voice, Intonation, Volume and Pitch and the VO-cmd-up/down changes those levels on the fly.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 14, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Eileen Misrahi <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I can really feel your frustrations. Fortunately, my MacBook Air was an easy > fix at the Apple Store today. One thing I want to add, when booting up into > recovery or other dianostic modes on the computer, voiceover can be access > with the command-F5. The voice is not Alex, but some other boyish voice, but > at least there is accessibility to the information. The volume is low and it > can't be increased. Just letting you know about this pointer. HTH. Good luck > and you may need to contact Apple Care. > > Best, > Eileen > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Rachel Feinberg <walksi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Kristeen, >> >> I don't know if this is accessible, but in looking up keyboard shortcuts for >> starting up a Mac if something's not working properly, you can try holding >> down D at start up. It will start the apple hardware test, which may tell >> you something about your drives if they are connected. >> Rachel. >>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Earlier today I noticed that my computer could not see my two external >>> drives which were connected via USB. I decided a reboot was in order, since >>> most of the time this fixes that type of an issue. There was no voice over >>> when the computer restarted. I was unable to tell whether the computer >>> booted all the way or not because of having no speech. I tried rebooting >>> several more times, but the result was still the same.I disconnected all >>> peripherals, and was able to boot into recovery mode. I went into disk >>> utilities and repaired the disk. There seemed to be no problem with the >>> disc. The computer will still not reboot. >>> >>> Is there anything else I can try in recovery mode? Is there any other way I >>> can reboot the computer that will give me other diagnostic tools? Thank you >>> for any help anyone can provide. >>> >>> Kristeen Hughes >>> >>> -- >>> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
