Questions tagged [voiceover]
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How to disable the voice that says the text I hover over in Mac OS X?
I am a newbie in the Mac world, I have a Mac mini, and suddenly yesterday I found it crazy, as when I hover overy any text with my mouse it says it.
A friend of mine told me about this problem and how to solve but I forgot, because in that time I…
Amr Elgarhy
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How can I get rid of the blue border that appeared on every focused UI element on macOS?
I recently decided to try some new Torrent clients, I downloaded the BitLord and then everything started to go wrong. I quickly noticed it was installing unwanted and unchecked bundle apps, then I tried my best to remove all of them. But now, this…
Hal J Chan
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Use the new Siri voices on macOS to render text to audio files
macOS now has a few newly added voices that we can choose from in VoiceOver Utility > Speech. I quite like the Siri Male (United States) voice, but neither the command say nor using Automator will let me select this or any other Siri voices to use.…
user1258015
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Space bar doesn't work -- VoiceOver interfering?
The space bar on my late 2006 iMac with OS X 10.5.8 suddenly doesn't work. However, I just realized that if I have a word selected and hold down the spacebar for about half a second, the selection is read aloud.
It works if I hold down Shift +…
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How do I create a video presentation with preset pause-points?
I want to create a video that has preset pause-points to use in a presentation.
My presentation goes like this:
I present the first video segment while doing live voice-over. It will automatically pause at a preset point.
While the video is still…
Kit
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Why does Voiceover read from browser tabs that aren't on screen, and how can I stop it?
Lately I have been using Voiceover on my Mac frequently to verify accessibility on pages I am developing. I only start it when I am ready to use it and do not have it running the majority of the time. Nearly every time I press Command-F5 to start…
coppereyecat
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Why has the behavior of my tab key changed on mac
I'm on a mac m1 big sur, yesterday when I was testing with voiceover on a webpage I would
start voiceover
get message I was on webcontent to go into webcontent press VO-Shift-down arrow
do that
then I could press the tab key and tab to the first…
user254694
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