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My daughter hit something. How do I get the text and voice to stop on my Imac? everything we do comes up in a black box across the bottom and he says everything we do via text as well.

please help!

iMac, iOS 6.1

Posted on Feb 9, 2013 7:17 AM

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Feb 9, 2013 8:01 AM in response to mccormick10112002

We don't know your iMac version nor you Mac OS (iOS is not a computer OS), but you should be able to go to System Preferences > Universal Access and, on the "Seeing" tab, turn off "VoiceOver:


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Note that the key combo command F5 toggles Voiceover on and off.; that's likely what your daughter hit in her explorations. Historically, cats are also very good at invoking some part of Universal Access by walking on keyboards!

My daughter hit something. How do I get the text and voice to stop on my Imac? everything we do comes up in a black box across the bottom and he says everything we do via text as well.

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