Sorry about all the posts, I am just new to Mac and am having a few issues. Right now I am having an issue where I hear a bloop every few seconds, and I have no idea what it is. It started right after I opened the weather app. Restarting the computer is the only thing that seems to fix this, but what is the bloop? This is the second time this has happened, the first time it started after I installed an app.
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Window and Application chooser menus
Sometimes when opening an app for the first time, it will prompt for permission to access sensitive assets or restricted areas of the system, such as your location, user files, camera, or microphone. If VoiceOver plays a sound periodically or announces something like "[X] dialogs displayed," but doesn't focus on a dialog automatically, you should be able to jump to it via the Window Chooser, accessed by pressing VO-F2 twice. If the alert is a system dialog, it may be in the Application Chooser instead of the Window Chooser, accessed by pressing VO-F1 twice.
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Thanks. I didn't know about that command. I will try that next time.
Weird sounds
One other tip - if you hear weird sounds in VoiceOver and don't know what they mean, try pressing VO+H to get to the help menu, press down arrow until you hear "Sounds Help" (or press S to filter the list first to go straight there). Press enter to select.
You now get a list of all the VoiceOver sounds and what they mean. Just keep pressing up and down arrows to hear them. Press Esc to close the menu when done.
But otherwise I would have guessed what tyler suggested as that got me a number of times before I realised what was going on.
That help menu is surprisingly useful. This is totally off-topic, but if you hold down VO and press H twice, it will go to the commands list. You can move through these and press enter to perform an action. It will usually tell you the keyboard shortcut too. And as before, you can type to filter. So if there's a command you use and you can't remember how to do it, you can get to it this way. Or if there's something you use only very rarely, this can save having to store the shortcut away in your brain which might already be strainingi a bit if you are new to the Mac.