Can i turn off stickykeys being announced by voiceover?

Hi together! Am blind and have the left hand disabled. Just bought a macbook air and must use voiceover and stickykeys, but voiceover always says something like stickykey+ctrl+something whenever i press a keystroke. Can I somehow turn that off without disabling neither stickykeys nor voiceover? Thanks in advance Helmuth

Hi, Helmuth - Your issue would drive me nuts, too. This might be a quick fix for you...
In System Preferences » Accessibility » VoiceOver, click the button 'Open VoiceOver Utility' in the bottom right of the pane.
In the new window that opens, select Verbosity in the left hand column, then the Text button toward the top of the window in the center.
The third item in the list under Text is "While typing speak:". The default is Characters and Words. Click on that and choose another level of Verbosity from the list. The choices are Characters OR Words OR Characters and Words OR Nothing.
There are quite a few ways of customizing VoiceOver in this Utility window. Since you have a new machine, you might enjoy taking the time to configure VoiceOver exactly the way you like by going through the preference settings for all of the items in the left hand column. Good luck!

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