How to create a keyboard macro

By Soren Holmgren (Denmark), 9 January, 2016

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On my Mac I use VoiceOver and inverted colors. It is not possible to use the shortcut key to invert colors back to normal when VoiceOver is active. So I have to press Command + F5 to deactivate VoiceOver, then press Fn + Ctrl + Alternative + 8 to invert colors, and then again press Command + F5 to activate VoiceOver again.

There must be a way to create a AppleScript with keystrokes but I can't figure it out.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to make a keyboard macro which can perform the above mentioned task?

Thank you in advance!
Regards Soren, Denmark

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By Tim Sniffen on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 01:30

Soren, you can reset the keyboard shortcut for any accessibility feature. I made a video about this, including resetting the Invert Colors shortcut to Option C. You can listen to it on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFjnmQ7W18Y

By Soren Holmgren (Denmark) on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 01:30

Hi Tim.

Thank you for the advise. It is a great video. The problem is solved just by changing the keyboard shortcut from Ctrl + Alt + Command 8 (which is default) to a different combination. It is now possible for me to invert colors even though VoiceOver is active.

Best regards
Soren