Seeing double in Tiger?

By Laurie A. Duncan

Several readers of MacBidouille noticed that in certain Finder and application menus some options were listed twice, as shown in this screen shot:

Turns out this is the result of having VoiceOver activated. If you never intended to use VoiceOver and you don't recall having gone to the Universal Access preference pane to enable it, you might have accidentally hit the keyboard shortcut that toggles it: "command-F5." We're guessing it would take more than double menu entries to get you to notice that VoiceOver was active, though, since the fact that your computer was talking back to you should have been a clue.

The menus aren't technically duplicates. You'll notice there are different keyboard shortcuts on each and there are ellipses on one of them. Apple has a KBASE article about this, actually, so it's not really as bug. They say...

When VoiceOver is turned on, you may see two menu items that perform the same task, one with an ellipsis and the other without. When you choose a menu item with an ellipses in its title, you see a dialog that allows you to make a choice. Menu items with no ellipses perform the action immediately.

Anyway, if you want to stop seeing double, just disable VoiceOver and everything goes back to normal.

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