Hi Esther,
Thanks for all your great work and help.
I am still using Tiger, and vo/j works well, so it is not for Leperd.
Cheers,
Stan.
On 14 Jan 2009, at 12:03 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Søren,
You asked about the VO-J command used in mail to jump between
selections in the message table to read message content and then
jump back to the message table.
SJ: I haven't seen this command efore. Or have I? When I open up
the VO command list by pressing vo h twice, VO j is known as:
"Link item." I thought this was used to explain a link item or
something like that. Does this command also work in other
applications than Mail?
Esther: VO-J can be used in a similar manner in iChat, to jump
between the table of incoming messages and the text field in which
you type your message. It also works in iTunes to jump between
items in the sources table and their corresponding songs table
listings -- for example, when you insert a CD, and want to view its
contents. This method of reading mail with the VO-J command is
described in the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide for Leopard in the
section on "Using Mac OS X Mail". The list of commands in the
Appendix of the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide describes VO-J as
Jump to a linked item (for example, from a Mail message in the
Inbox to its message text).
Just after Leopard was released, there was an extensive discussion
on list about getting this navigation method working. One of the
posters reminded everyone that their success in using VO-J hinged
on whether they had hidden the message area, and the summary usage
instructions for mail (excerpted again below) and my response to
the question about how to get this working again is based on that
discussion. This was also how I learned about VO-J for mail, since
it was quite a while before I moved up to Leopard from Tiger.
Now you should be able to navigate as before:
1. interact with message table
2. use VO and the right or left arrows to find a message field.
I.E. author or subject
3. use the standard up or down arrows to locate a message
4. press VO J to read a message
5. press VO J again after you hear the message being read to you
You should now be back in the message table
6. press delete if you want to to delete the message you just
read...
Cheers,
Esther
