Hi Dean and Gigi, Actually, couldn't your friend try using the three-finger double tap on the TrackPad to un-mute VoiceOver? That was my first thought, but I assumed that you had tried to have him do that first. Gigi is correct, it helps to keep your fingers slightly curved as well as separated when you do the double tap. The other possibility for new users is that they have turned TrackPad Commander off, if they've also managed to mute VoiceOver. In that case, hold down the Control and Option keys, and make a rotor gesture in the clockwise direction with two fingers on the trackpad, then try the two-finger triple tap again.
Alternatively, could this be one of the situations where VoiceOver is busy? This is more likely to happen in Safari, or perhaps in Mail if lots of windows are open, and occasionally in the iTunes Store. What happens if he uses Command-Tab to switch to another application, and then toggles VoiceOver off and on again with Command-F5? That should bring back VoiceOver even if it has been accidentally muted. Just trying to think out loud about possibilities. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Sorry, Dean, I didn't see your original message before I sent mine. I have > had this happen, too, but before I knew about the keyboard command I was able > to get it to work with the trackpad by doing it again. I found that my > fingers had to be curved. I agree that the trackpad on the Mac doesn't > respond like it does on the iPhone. I don't have the same problem on the > iPhone. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dean, >> >> There's the "Mute" button is on the F10 key. I toggle this on and off by >> pressing FN+F10, but that's because under System Preferences > Keyboard on >> the Keyboard tab I have the box checked for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as >> standard function keys". If this box is not checked, you would just press >> the F10 key by itself to toggle muting on and off. >> >> Alternatively, just pressing the key to raise volume (FN+F12, or F12) will >> also undo muting. There is a way to assign a key to the "Mute VoiceOver >> Toggle" command, but I don't think there is any keyboard shortcut set by >> default to that. It would be too devastating to come across this by >> accident. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Dean Adams wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> Can anyone please tell me how I can turn speech on and Off with the >>> keyboard I know you can mute voice over with the trackpad commander with a >>> three finger double tap but I have a friend that has turned off speech >>> somehow and can't get speech to come back on again any help with this would >>> of great help. >>> Regards Dean >>> >>> Sent from Dean Adams Macbook Pro >>> breezepa...@gmail.com >>> phone: 0243206031 >>> Mobile: 0428133758 >>> Skype : deanadams9 >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
