I do not know about step by step as I have only just learnt this . But I will have a go. This is from memory and remember I am using Lion, instructions for snow leopard may be different especially in selecting contacts which is much more complicated as I understand it. 1 In mail make sure that all the addresses you need have been added to address book. The easiest way to do this is to press Command shift Y on a email you have received in the in box. If you need to add an address for a person you have sent emails to but have not received then go to sent mailbox and press command shift Y on the address of the message you have sent. 3. close mail. 4. Open address book. 5. Navigate to contact list table. You will hear voiceover say table. Interact to open up this table. 6. VO cursor down the table and then press VO plus command plus spacebar to select each address you need. Voiceover will say added to selection and give the number of items selected.. 7. Press command c to copy all the selected contacts. 8. create a new group. I think this is command shift N but you will find this command in the file menu. 9. Give a name to the untitled group. I cannot remember if you need to press return to do this but Voiceover will say untitled edit text when you are able to type in. If it does not say edit text ;you will need to press return on it to edit it. Press return again to confirm name change. 10. Now VO right arrow across to the new group table . Interact with this and then press command v to paste all the contacts you have copied into this new group. Stop interacting with the table and I think from memory that is pretty much it. I do not remember if there is an ok button but you can cursor down to investigate. 11. Now close address book. 12 Open up mail. Create a new mail message, 13. type in your new group name and press enter. Mail will remove the group name and instead populate the to edit box with the individual email addresses of the contacts in the group. Hope that helps but you may need a little trial and error to get it to work. It is accessible and does work however so persevere and it will become second nature with practice.
-----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan Sent: 24 November 2011 20:47 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Distribution List Could you give me a step by step directions to do this? THanks. Lovette On 2011-11-24, at 5:37 AM, David Griffith wrote: > I have just managed to set up my first distribution list with address book and Mail. > There are some options specifically for distribution lists which you can bring up in address book when you bring up the context menu so the concept of distribution is definitely a Mac as well as a Windows one. > two hurdles I encountered when I did this war firstly that navigating the between the group , seemed difficult despite tabbing and interacting. I eventually closed Address book and was then able to find the table of group I had created to paste the contacts in. The new ease of non contiguous item selection in Lion proved very useful here. Not having to mess around with cursor tracking was a bonus. Secondly initially, the distribution list appeared not to work. What I did was set up the distribution list in address Book and then elect email from the context menu on the group. This would not work. > What I found in my case was that I had to close both address book and mail. However on opening mail again I was then able to type in the group name into the to edit box and mail dutifully added all the maims from the address book. So what happened was I typed LVFMC which was my group name and pressed enter. Mail then populated the to edit boxes with all the necessary addresses. It may be that it will now work from Address Book and that mail has to restart to find the group set up by address book before all is smooth. . > Thanks to the lister who posted this question as it has prompted me to sort it out for myself. > David Griffith > > David Griffith > d.griff...@btinternet.com > > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 6552 (20111018) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 6552 (20111018) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 6552 (20111018) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
