As others have said, I have not had these issues with any of my Macs either.
On 6/17/13, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <for...@talknav.com> wrote: > certainly do not have the issue on any of the Mac's I've owned or the ones I > do own now. > > I use the F1 / F2 keys though to change the brightness. > > > > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple > iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your > accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > On 17 Jun 2013, at 08:01, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> After contemplating the sad news that screen curtain does not conserve >> battery power, I decided today to try and lower my mid 2011 MacBook Air's >> screen brightness in order to conserve battery power. I did this in the >> display pane of system preferences. When I tried adjusting the screen >> brightness slider, however, VoiceOver went a little bananas. The sound >> kept cutting in and out almost like VoiceOver was stuttering or on a >> really bad phone line. Then I lost VoiceOver sound completely. I navigated >> right and turned automatically adjust screen brightness back on, and >> VoiceOver returned to me. However, when I would navigate back to the >> brightness slider VoiceOver would begin stutterring again. >> >> Any ideas of what's going on here? Does this happen to everyone or just >> me? >> >> Cheers, >> Nic >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.