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Literally. I woke it up this AM and the first thing I noticed was a solid black rectangle around the icons on my desktop that I clicked on and then it would start talking to me telling me the name of the file. Then I would go to my dropdowns and it would say out loud every thing I click on and it's in this electronic voice. Also I noticed that some menu items such as Shutdown are duplicated. What's going on and how do shut it off? As of now I have turned off the sound but this is really crazy.
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. "
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>"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. "
So far, I can't tell if Eyesight is looking at me...
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VoiceOver in Universal Access?
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Go into your System Prefs>Universal Access and turn off Voice Over. I think Command, F5 does it, too.
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VoiceOver was on. I didn't turn it on! Actually, my iMac is a bit flaky. Among other things, I have it set to Sleep after 15 minutes but it won't Sleep unless I do it with the Power button.
The VoiceOver thing has me baffled.
Anyway, that was it and once again this august forum comes to the rescue!
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