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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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.

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macjack@gmail.com

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.

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macjack@gmail.com

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