I seem to have accidentally changed how VoiceOver interacts with the menu bar, and I can't get it back to the normal behaviour.
Instead of VO-M taking me to the menu bar, it goes directly to the Apple menu. The menas that pressing 'E' for Edit or 'F' for File no longer works. Using VO-<UP> will take me to the menu bar, but moving to the right opens up each menu, and I have to again do VO-<UP> to get back to the menu bar.
I assume that I accidentally entered some VoiceOver key combination that has altered the menu bar interaction, but I don't know what actually triggered this. Restarting VoiceOver did not help, nor did logging out or restarting the computer.
Has anyone else encountered this, and more important, does anyone know how to undo this?
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Mouse pointer setting
My immediate thought is that the "Mouse pointer" popup menu in VoiceOver Utility > Navigation was changed to have the mouse pointer following the VoiceOver cursor, which can alter how VoiceOver interacts with the menu bar. Changing it to "Ignores VoiceOver cursor" should resolve the problem.
HTH
Thanks, Tyler.
Yes, that was it. I'm not sure how I ended up altering that setting, but switching back to "ignore" did the trick.