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my cat sat on my keyboard now firefox talk out loud in a creepy electronic voice. now says eveything I am doing like opened a new window, email address Please tell me how to shut off

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my cat sat on my keyboard now firefox talks out loud in a creepy electronic voice. I can't find the place to shut it off. Please tell me how to turn off the Firefox talking that says things like Firefox has new dialog. Copy. Paste. cut.

my cat sat on my keyboard now firefox talks out loud in a creepy electronic voice. I can't find the place to shut it off. Please tell me how to turn off the Firefox talking that says things like Firefox has new dialog. Copy. Paste. cut.

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The cat has turned on a Mac accessibility feature called VoiceOver.

A few options:

  1. Let the cat sit on the keyboard again, it may turn it off :)
  2. Use the keyboard shortcut Command+F5, it turns this feature on/off.
  3. In the Apple menu select System Preferences, then click Universal Access. Select the Seeing tab and you should see a setting to turn off VoiceOver.
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A million thanks! That was driving me crazy!

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OMG!!! My cat did the same thing!! It happened a week ago and I had to mute my computer until I found this post. Our cats must be related!!