Solved a major problem for an older Mac User Group member yesterday: Whenever he booted up his 2017 27-in iMac VoiceOver would shout loudly that he needed to enter his password. Plus his keyboard wasn’t working properly, some keys were unresponsive. The Accessibility (onscreen) keyboard appeared at login & he had to use the mouse to enter the password all while VoiceOver was screeching at full volume all manner of stuff depending on where the mouse went.
He had set Mouse Keys on in the Accessibility System Preference. This setting uses keys 7, 8, 9, U, O, J, K & L as cursor arrows & keys I & M as mouse buttons. That’s why his keyboard was malfunctioning.
The login issue with VoiceOver, etc was nothing to do with the normal Accessibility settings, rather the very similar ones in the Accessibility Options part of Login Options in the Users & Groups system preference. See attachment. All those options had been checked, I unchecked them.
He also had two hot corners set up: top left was Desktop. But he had no other virtual desktops active. Top right hot corner was Notifications, but in almost the same location but on the menubar is where you open Notifications anyway. I turned off all Hot Corners.
All instances of VoiceOver, Zoom, Mouse Keys, Sticky Keys, Slow Keys & Accessibility Keyboard were then unchecked and deactivated.
Problem solved, took me about 20 minutes to nut it all out but now I have a friend for life!
