Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
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 brightneess 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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
Hello, I have used screen curtain on my Idevices, while reading a book. I have also adjusted screen brightness on my computer if I am using it to access a podcast or the like which doesn't require me to be in front of it. I have not had any kind of issues with voiceover finding its way around the screen when the screen brightness is reduced. I remember my very first experience with a software screenreader using DOS 5 Word perfect 5.1. I have enough vision that I tried to follow the cursor. Needless to say, it slowed me down considerably. My instructor took away my monitor forcing me to listen to the speech. I can't believe the mac would need a lighted screen to function either. Pam Francis On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:01 AM, 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 brightneess 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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
Hi, try to lower screen brightness by pressing F1 or, FN F1. To raise brightness press F2 or FN F2. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:01 AM, 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 brightneess 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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
Hi Nick, Using the slider in Display Prefs, VO does hesitate a little on my MBP Late 2011 but does not behave as badly as you've outlined. Using the F1/F2 though causes no hesitation at all. Actually, this is the first time I've ever used the slider in Display Prefs so wanted to check on your findings. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-17, at 8:33 AM, Cameron Strife came...@cameronstrife.com wrote: 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. -- 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.
Re: Screen Brightness and VoiceOver
Thanks all for the responses. Using the function keys works perfectly, so thanks for that. Not sure what was going on in the display preferences. I've known screen brightness to have unusual effects on seemingly unrelated things before, so thought it might be something like that. Anyway, here's to longer battery life! 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.
