I tried to activate the option 5 times for mouse keys, however, it seems as
though a mouse has to be physically present to get this to work! I don't know
why since your using the keyboard to move the mouse pointer. Well, time for me
to get a cheap mouse and plug it in!
On Jun 18, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Teresa and Howard,
>
> Yes, it's possible that the preview pane of Howard's mail is not visible, but
> he can check this by trying to navigate from the message list with VO-Right
> arrow. If moving past the "horizontal splitter" doesn't get him to the
> "message content, scroll area" then the preview pane is hidden. However,
> since Snow Leopard I don't think you can use VO-Shift-Space to double-click
> on horizontal splitter to either drop or raise it. You have to physically
> click on it with your mouse or trackpad. What I've been able to do on my
> laptop after using VO+Command+F5 to make sure that my mouse cursor is routed
> to my VoiceOver cursor on the horizontal splitter (or after checking that
> it's on the horizontal splitter with VO+F5 if I have my cursors tracking), is
> to turn Mouse Keys on and then double tap on the "i" key to do the
> double-click on the horizontal splitter. This works just like a physical or
> "hardware click" with mouse or trackpad. I set up Mouse Keys so that it can
> be turned on and off by pressing the "Option" key 5 times quickly. It makes
> a chittering noise when Mouse Keys gets turned on or off. Pressing the "i"
> is where the current mouse position is, and is like pressing the "5" key on a
> numeric keypad with Numpad Commander activated. The "i" key was the location
> of the "5" key on the embedded numeric keypad for laptops, which disappeared
> after November 2007. However, this is still used to let people move the
> mouse cursor independently on laptops that do not have numeric keypads.
> Pressing keys to the left, right, above, or below the "i" key move the cursor
> one screen pixel in that direction. Diagonal moves by pressing the keys
> above (or below) and to the left (or right) of the "i" key are also possible,
> and double tapping the "i" key is like performing a double-click with a mouse
> or trackpad button. The sequence after verifying you're on the horizontal
> splitter, or where you want to click or double click is: press the option key
> 5 times quickly (assuming you enabled this as a way to toggle MouseKeys on
> and off on the Keyboard tab of the Universal Access Menu under System
> Preferences); double tap the "i" key to double-click; press the option key 5
> times quickly again to turn off MouseKeys.
>
> I'm still not sure whether Howard actually lost his Preview pane -- but if
> there's no "message content, scroll area" when he navigates to the right of
> the horizontal splitter, that would be the case. It may be more likely that
> his Mail preferences file ("com.apple.mail.plist" in the
> "Library/Preferences" folder of his home directory) just got corrupted. If
> so, he could try closing Mail, then moving that preference file to his
> Desktop and moving an older version of his Mail preferences file to the
> "Library/Preferences" folder of his home directory, and see whether that
> solves the problem when he next opens Mail. If that doesn't solve things, he
> can always move the current mail preferences file back to his
> "Library/Preferences" folder.
>
> Incidentally, I save a copy of some of my most commonly used preference files
> in a separate folder on Disk, since these are quite small, so I don't have to
> grab these off a backup. Instead of trying to figure out which these are by
> name, I just use Command-Shift-G (the "Go to Folder" shortcut) in Finder from
> my Home directory, type in "Library/Preferences" (without the quotation
> marks) in the text box and press "Return", then sort the (list view) table
> according to date modified and copy the first 50 or so files. While
> preference (or "plist") files don't often get corrupted, "often" is a
> relative term. And these files get opened, updated, and re-written every
> time you open or modify the corresponding application. So after a few years
> of steady use, it's possible for one of these to get corrupted and not
> correctly record your preferences.
>
> In a few instances, odd behavior in apps will be fixed if you do a reboot.
>
> HTH. Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:15, Teresa Cochran wrote:
>
>> Hi, Howard and all,
>>
>> It sounds like the preview pane isn't visible. When you have VO on the
>> message list, stop interacting with it and VO right once more to where it
>> says "horizontal splitter". Do a VO-f5 to be sure you have the mouse
>> positioned on it, then a VO-shift- space to click it.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Teresa
>> On Jun 18, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
>>
>>> All of a sudden, and for no reason I can think of, the command VO-j,
>>> which I use a million times each day in Mac Mail to jump from a
>>> message in the inbox to that actual message, isn't working. Instead of
>>> doing what it's supposed to do, it interacts with the list of
>>> mailboxes. Huh? Yes, I've tried rebooting. Any thoughts about what
>>> I've done and what I might try to do to get it back the way it's been
>>> for nearly three years now?
>>> Thanks so much.
>>> Howard
>>>
>
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