Hi Ester, thanks, it worked. Actually I did have to click the physical trackpad twice quickly for it to work, vo shift space twice didn't. thanks again, Rafaela El 10/11/2010, a las 23:32, Esther escribió:
> Hi Rafaela, > > You need to be on the horizontal splitter, and you need to double click with > your VO cursor on the splitter. I'll paste in part of one of my very old > archived list posts: > <begin quote> > To remove the preview pane in the Mail application > > 1. Navigate (e.g. with VO-Right arrow) past the "Messages Table" to > where you hear "Horizontal Splitter". > 2. Route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor with VO-Command-F5 > 3 Double-click on the splitter either using VO-Shift-Space or by > pressing your physical mouse key or trackpad key twice quickly. To > double click with VO-Shift-Space, hold down your Control, Option, and > Shift keys then tap the space bar twice quickly. You should also be > able to double-click by quickly pressing the "5" key twice on a > numeric keypad with Numpad Commander enabled (only in Leopard or Snow > Leopard, not Tiger). > > Anne has mentioned that using VO-Shift-Space doesn't always work as a > substitute for clicking or double-clicking, while clicking with mouse > or trackpad (or by using the Numpad Commander option) will work. This > can true for some applications with transitioning accessibility, but > I've always found it to work in commonly used applications like mail. > > The two clicks must be close together. If you click once, the system > expects that you will be issuing commands to move the splitter (e.g. > by interacting with it and using your arrow keys). The second click > tells it that you do not want to adjust it, but to drop it all the > way. Note that you will never be able to do this if such an action > hides an essential window that means you cannot effectively use the > app. I can move splitters with double-click to remove informational > windows in Automator; I can't remove any windows that are essential to > my using the application. > <end quote> > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 10, 2010, at 06:15 PM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: > >> Hi Teresa, >> I put the mouse and the vo cursor on the vertical splitter, then tried a vo >> shift space to clic the mouse. Nothing happened so I turned off trackpad >> commander and clicked the actual mouse. Nothing happened either. What am I >> missing? am I supposed to interact with it or do something else after? >> thanks, >> Rafaela, >> El 10/11/2010, a las 10:17, Teresa Cochran escribió: >> >> > Hi, Rafaela, >> > >> > Ensure that VO and the mouse pointer are on the horizontal splitter >> > between the list of messages and the preview pane. Use your actual mouse >> > to double-click it. >> > >> > HTH, >> > Teresa >> > On Nov 10, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Rafaela Freundt wrote: >> > >> >> Hi folks, >> >> how can I disable the preview pane in mail? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rafaela >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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.
