Hi Sarah, Not sure if you've already tried the following, but here's the text of an email I sent in a few months back. Note that this process seems a bit persnickety and I sometimes have to quit and restart mail.app to get things dragging again.
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 Dec 8, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. How do i rearrange my favorites bar in mail under os 10.8.2? I've > tried to touch where the check box is for the favorite and move it but no go. > I can't manage to move the box to where I want it. Don't laugh, but I like my > favorites bar in ABC order. Ok I like most everything in ABC order. but any > suggestions on the favorites bar would help greatly. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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/>
