Strange Keyboard behavior in Mac OS 10

By Darrell Bowles, 25 May, 2015

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Hello, I am writing this to see if I can get some help with a strange Keyboard issue my wife is experiencing. When she presses the tab key, VoiceOver says, Ignoring Next keypress. furthermore, If you press command w, or command q, Voice over acts like it's navigating a webpage, and says, no next blockquoat found. Any ideas on how to fix this? This urgent, and I kind of need an answer quickly.

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By chad on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 14:51

hi is quick nav enabled by accident if so just hit left and right arrows together and it will shut it off

By Joseph on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 14:51

That's not a quicknav issue. somehow your wife has turned control option lock on. she can disable it with control option semicolon.

By Darrell Bowles on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 14:51

No, it's not any of these. Some how, it fixed it self, but this was after she went to clean some water off her keyboard.

By mehgcap on Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 14:51

It sounds like a key or two were stuck down. You said there was water on the keyboard, and that would certainly explain things. Even without water, I've experienced my Mac thinking I was holding down a modifier when I actually wasn't. It's extremely rare, and I find that holding down all modifiers for a second fixes it, but it can happen. I suspect this is universal, as it happened on Windows as well, and I've seen it on a few different keyboards.