Hi David and Erik,
OK, perhaps a better reply to Erik would have been to say that Quick
Look Attachments doesn't work as a way of playing his emailed home
phone voice message .wav attachments, but that he doesn't need to
separately save and open the files in order to listen to them. As
long as he opens the file he can listen to it. For example:
1. Navigate to the selected message in the messages table
2. VO-J to jump to the message, which is read out
3. VO-Space on the attachment; QuickTime player opens up
4. Press return; the .wav file plays in QuickTime player
5. Command-Q to quit QuickTime player; you're returned to the message
6. VO-J to jump back to the messages table
You may need to check that the QuickTime player window gets focus, but
this seems pretty robust. You can press return again if you want to
replay the message, and you can delete the message after you've
finished listening from the messages table.
(Incidentally, I don't have actual emailed voice messages to try this
on, so I made a test email with a .wav file attachment. There may be
a different or better way to listen to this. However, it's still true
that Quick Look doesn't work on a .wav attachment in mail. That
doesn't mean you can't listen to the attachment if you open it.)
Cheers,
Esther
P.S. I've changed the subject line to reflect the new topic -- not
that it will help those people who choose to delete this post by
thread! <smile>
On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:39 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
well, this is not an accessibility issue. when I want to play
my .wav attachments, I toggle attachments view and play them right
from the body.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Erik,
You asked why you can't use Quick Look in mail to play .wav files.
This is only a guess, because I'm not a computer systems person, but
the issue may be the default memory usage associated with the mail
application set up, especially to handle play and pause of buffered
streaming audio. There may be ways to handle this in the way the
Mail app is written, but I'd think that it's probably more
straightforward to set this up for files that are on disk, through
the information in Finder, than to pass forward the specifications
via the mail attachments API which probably weren't written with
this in mind. You might get in touch with Apple's accessibility
folks and put in a request for this feature. They could probably
tell you (or find out) whether this is feasible.
erik burggraaf wrote:
Here's one that's been itching at me for a while. My home phone
emails my voice mail messages to me, and they come in as wav file
attachments. Mail has a save as button, and a quick look button.
What I usually do is save the atachment, go off to where I saved
it, and press space to bring up quicklook and hear the voicemail
message. The reason I do that is because when I press the quick
look button in the mail message, I can't get the thing to play the
wav file for anything.
Any ideas why quick look will play my wav file from within finder,
but not from within mail?
Cheers,
Esther
