VoiceOver Causes this blue ring thing around Buttons and menus

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VoiceOver Causes this blue ring thing around Buttons and menus

I accidentally turned on VoiceOver today, and right after disabling it, I realized that it's been causing menus and buttons to have blue rings around them. I know it doesn't seem that big, but it's annoying to me, so if someone knows how to turn them off, that would be über-nice 🙂

I've included some screen shots:

One of iChat:

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4262/ichatblue0hn.jpg

One from Safari:

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/7508/safariblue1og.jpg

Please note that these are not the only places that the 'blue ring' comes up.

Thanks in advance! 🙂

Powerbook G4 15 1.5 GHz; iMac G4; iPod Mini, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Apr 16, 2006 2:49 PM

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Answer 1

macjack

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Apr 16, 2006 3:03 PM in response to Steve J.

You are correct. They are part of Voice Over and should go off when you disable it. Have you tried restarting?

If that doesn't sort it, try navigating to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/ com.apple.universalaccess.plist and trashing that file, then restarting.

-mj
macjack@gmail.com

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Answer 2

macjack

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Apr 16, 2006 4:05 PM in response to Steve J.

Actually the Safari screen capture looks ok, but if this is heappening im most menus like iChat try this:

Try this, quit any open apps then
navigate to /library/caches/ com.apple.LaunchServices-xxxxx.csstore. You may have more than one with different negative numbers. Delete all of these.

Then navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/ com.apple.launchservices.plist and delete this also.

Then restart. Let us know.

-mj
macjack@gmail.com

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Answer 3

macjack

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Apr 17, 2006 2:18 AM in response to Steve J.

Actually, I think you are ok. VO puts a black outlune or box around objects I think what you are seeing is a normal function of the OS which is controlled by the Tab key. You can chose "all controls" or" text boxes or and lists only" by pressing the control-F7 key combination. Or by choosing System Preferences >> Keyboard & Mouse >> Keyboard shortcuts and see "Full keyboard access", at the bottom of the window. I don't think you can disable that, just choose one or the other.

-mj
macjack@gmail.com

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Steve J. Author

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Apr 16, 2006 3:10 PM in response to macjack

Thanks for the reply macjack...

Yes, I had tried restarting, and it didn't seem to have worked. I have just tried deleting that file and restarting like you suggested, and the blue ring is still existent 😟

Any other ideas?

Thanks

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Steve J. Author

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Apr 16, 2006 7:47 PM in response to macjack

Hello again, macjack

Deleting those and restarting doesn't seem to work either...

I have also tried restarting with VoiceOver ON, and then turning it off, but no luck...

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Steve J. Author

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Apr 17, 2006 4:13 AM in response to macjack

Thank you!

Switching the option to "text boxes and lists only" worked

Thanks again 🙂

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