Hi Annie, My suggestion varies greatly from the advice you've been given so far, but IMHO is much more deficient; Here in the US in the 1960s there was an expression: "different strokes for different folks", so I'll offer this for your consideration.
First, In the VO utility go into the navigation tab and uncheck the box labeled: "Automatically interact when using tab key". Now as you treverce messages you can press right arrow to expand threads. If like me you're tired of hearing the word "thread" you can alter the verbosity setting for disclosure triangles such that the name is not announced. That way you'll know its a thread when VO identifies it as a triangle -- no need to hear the superfluous word "thread" every time. As you arrow up and down, VO usually announces the author, subject, etc. If it does not the "move right/left" commands (vo-arrow keys) reads the fields individually, and you can quickly peruse one specific field such as the sender via vo-up/down arrow commands. To read a message press tab . Since you are no longer automatically interacting with the table of messages or preview pane the tab moves focus to the preview pane and voiceOver usually automatically announces the contents there of regardless whether headings are enabled in mail prefferences. If you want to skim read the text or click on any links you may need to interact with the preview pane, but for most things I read and press backspace to delete. Pressing either backspace or shift-tab returns focus to the message list. BTW when a thread is not expanded, backspace will kill it off. You may want to bare in mind, however that many who are uninformed as I was recently will press reply and delete the subject and text with the intent of starting a totally different conversation. What threads messages together though is actually not the subject, but instead is determined by a line that is inserted into message headers. I plan to post a completely unrelated question to the list shortly regarding spell checking. If I did this by using command-r and deleting all the subject and text rather than pressing command-n, my question would have been appended to this thread, so that is the danger when you assume a thread is inapplicable. A recent example is Neil Barnfather's thread regarding keyboard navigation. This generated several other topics such as documentation and Apple in store training, but if I only saw a thread with three hundred or so messages about keyboard navigation and didn't believe the topic was of interest I would have missed several buried threads that were not related because someone apparently attempted to launch a new thread by using either control+r in Outlook or command-r in AppleMail. HTH. Geoff On Oct 16, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi all. > > i got so many mails on this list and another one too, that I need to read > them by threats. I have found out how to let the mails shown in threats, I > can not figure out the easyst way to read them. Normally I press voiceOver+j > to toggle between the content and the messages, but that is not as easy as > this when reading mails by threats, how is the easist way around that. > > Best regards Annie. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
