My iMac has become HAL!

[JimmyDreams]

I dripped a few drips of water on my keyboard today and I wiped them off real quick...

Somehow, I hit something that has turned on some sort of speech program that tells me what window I'm in, it reads my email to me etc. it has ALSO turned on the F4 for widgets etc.

It's cute for about 5 seconds and then it becomes annoying.

Can someone tell me how to turn it off and get my function keys back? I've looked everywhere I can think of.....

HELP?!?!?

 

[swiftaw]

Apple+F5

 

[EricNau]

Go to System Preferences > Universal access and turn off Voiceover.

 

[BoyBach]

You can turn the voiceover feature on and off in System Preferences - Universal Access.

For the Function Key probelm see here: https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4919752#post4919752

 

[swiftaw]

Go to System Preferences > Universal access and turn off Voiceover.

I thought it was Apple(Cmd)+F5

 

[EricNau]

I thought it was Apple(Cmd)+F5

Funny, it's different for me. Are you on a notebook (that would certainly explain the difference).

For me, I need to press fn+cmd+F5 to activate voiceover, but then just cmd+F5 to turn it off. ...But since the OP was trying to turn it off, not on, I decided to just edit out my comment.

 

[emt1]

I thought it was Apple(Cmd)+F5

Please tell me the difference between command F5 and apple command F5.

 

[swiftaw]

Please tell me the difference between command F5 and apple command F5.

There is none, but earlier some people were saying it was Fn+Cmd+F5, rather than just Cmd+F5

 

[JimmyDreams]

Thanks everyone! I turn it off, and I think I'll be able to sleep tonight without keeping one eye on my iMac to make sure it's not trying to kill me or anything!!!

I didn't know Voiceover was available!! Scared the crap out of me!!!

 

[SthrnCmfrtr]

*suppresses a strong desire to make a new account called "JimmyDreams' Mac" and start posting in this thread*

"I'm sorry, JimmyDreams, I can't allow you to do that."

 

[Chaszmyr]

*suppresses a strong desire to make a new account called "JimmyDreams' Mac" and start posting in this thread*

"I'm sorry, JimmyDreams, I can't allow you to do that."

Oh, that would have been too good!