Hi Danny,

I'm replying to your message on-list as I think this might be worth archiving 
for future reference

The following method works for me under Mountain Lion. The following 
instructions assume you have Mail.app open in Mountain Lion, your Favorites Bar 
is showing and already contains the items you want to rearrange, and that your 
screen and VO cursors are both zoomd all the way out (Command+Option+hyphen 
keys to zoom out the screen magnification, VO+Shift+Left Brace to zoom out VO 
cursor magnification.) I'm not sure why zoom is important, but I did find 
references online where folks were having trouble with VO drag & drop in 
general, and it was mentioned that the items to be drug (dragged? drugged?) 
must be visible on screen during the process.
1. Interact with Mail's Favorites Bar.
2. Move the VO cursor to the mailbox item you wish to rearrange.
3. Press and hold the VO+Spacebar key combo. In my case, VO doesn't seem to 
give any audible feeback that something is happening at this point
4. Use the right and left arrow keys while continuing to hold down the 
VO+Spacebar to move the mailbox left and right on the Favorites Bar. In my 
case, I hear the drag & drop scraping sound after each press of the arrow keys, 
and VO announces the name of the mailbox the cursor is passing. In addition, it 
seems as if VO announces the name of the mailbox I'm dragging as it reaches 
each possible insertion point.
5. When you've arrived at your desired insertion point, release the spacebar. 
At this point, VO simply tells me "Favorites bar" but if I navigate left and 
right I hear the mailboxes in their new order.
6. If I want to remove an item from the Favorites Bar, I use the same steps but 
in step 4 I continue to arrow left all the way until VO announces "Hide Mailbox 
List." I then release the spacebar whereupon VO makes a brief "whoosh" sound 
which I presume is supposed to indicate that the item has been tossed off of 
the Favorites Bar. Note that this process didn't work if the mailbox list 
wasn't displayed, in other words, if you arrow all the way to the left and VO 
announces "Show mailbox list." In that case you might need to make sure the 
mailbox list is showing before you try this procedure.

Note that there were a few times when pressing VO+Spacebar+arrow keys did not 
seem to do anything. In those cases I stopped interacting with the Favorites 
Bar and then interacted with it again and the process started working.

HTH,
Bryan

On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Danny Noonan <da...@familynoonan.net> wrote:
> Is there a way to remove or rearrange items in the favourites bar as well as 
> adding? 

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