> On Feb 10, 2026, at 10:30 PM, Frank Ventura <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Steve, interacxt with the mailbox table. VO DOWN ARROW until you reach the
> account you need and if it is collapsed expand it and DOWN ARROW to the
> folder you want. Then stop interacting with the table and VO RIGHT to the
> message list ads interact with that.
>
>> On Feb 10, 2026, at 9:44 AM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> That would be good advice if it actually worked. Right now, I'm stuck in the
>> Sent folder of one of the two mailboxes I have. If I Shift-TAB, I go to the
>> Messages table. Another Shift-Tab takes me to the All Sent (toggle button)
>> folder. Pressing VO-Spacebar doesn't toggle anything.If I TAB back to the
>> Messages table and then Shift-TAB to go backwards again, every subsequent
>> press of Shift-TAB takes me to a previous folder (toggle button) in some
>> list. I eventually get to the All Inboxes folder, but I can't see any other
>> mail accounts. VO-J doesn't do anything for me either. If I move to that
>> list of folder names all of which say "toggle button" and then try to expand
>> them, I go directly back to the Messages table in the Sent folder. I'm being
>> held prisoner by my own computer! LOL.
>>
>>
>> Mention was made to turn off Show Categories in the View menu. It's already
>> off. Come to think of it, so is just about everything else.
>>
>>
>>> On 2/10/2026 12:56 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
>>> I had a different issue understanding the mail app.
>>> Although I am not facing the same issues mentioned in this thread, I never
>>> realised that all the mail boxes are expanded by default and they never
>>> collapse.
>>> The simple way of navigating is to do a ctrl + option + up arrow and then
>>> move using up and down arrows to navigate different folders.
>>> Then do tab and shift tab
>>> So when you move between folders you will hear inbox, sent, draft … etc.
>>> If you have more than 1 email account set then this cycle of inbox, sent, …
>>> will repeat that many times.
>>> Then once you locate your folder just press tab once or perhaps 2 times to
>>> get to the list of emails.
>>> Regards.
>>>> On 10 Feb 2026, at 5:33 AM, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Steve, was Mail better in the past? How different was it? I’m having
>>>> this same problem and it’s really annoying especially from someone coming
>>>> from windows and outlook where you can just F6 and shift F6 and it’s
>>>> really easy to switch accounts it I’m still keeping an old PC around
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 9, 2026, at 6:59 PM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Great googly moogly but the Mail app sure is different than it was on
>>>>> the previous version of macOS. So different, in fact, that I can’t get it
>>>>> to work at all! At first, I was stuck, unable to choose which of two male
>>>>> accounts I wanted to read. Then, when I got into one of them, now I am
>>>>> stuck in a folder I don’t care about and out of which I cannot get. What
>>>>> happened? How do I learn this? Looking for a lifeline! Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
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