Accessing pop up notifications

By Maanling, 4 January, 2016

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I am busy working on making the transition from using zoom to using voiceover on my mac. When I get something like an e-mail. IMessage or reminder there appears a pop up notification in the top right of my screen. If voiceover is on at the time it pops up, the focus automatically goes there and i can deal with it. If i turn voiceover on after getting a popup, i have no clue how to bring voiceover focus there so i can deal with it. I know how to turn off pop ups in settings, but i actually find them quite useful.. Or i would when voiceover reads them. Can anyone tell me how to access them with VO?

Greetings from the Netherlands.

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By Piotr Machacz on Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 03:37

If you're referring to what's called an Alert in the English version of OS X, you can get to it with the window chooser (press control-option f2 twice quickly).

By Maanling on Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 03:37

Yes!! THANK YOU! I'm getting VoiceOver training at a special oranization for blind people. My computer teachers says the pop ups are annoying because there's no way to get to them. Why do I think I want a new computer teacher? Thank you so much.