Try pressing VO-j from the message list. This will put you in the message text.
Teresa "Visualize whirled peas." On Oct 30, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Johnny Angel! wrote: > Hi Simon and all, > > There's something else about my lion mail I've noticed after the update: > > Originally in mail, after opening up any post, I was placed in "text" mode. > Now after opening up a post, I am placed in the headers group. > > Does anyone know how to restore this behavior so that my mail is opened in > "text" mode once again? > > Perhaps this is now why after opening a message, VO does not automatically > read it? > > Thanks for all your help! > > Johnny C > On Oct 30, 2011, at 7:47 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Johnny, >> >> My mail behaves occasionally in the manner you have described, i.e. >> Voiceover won't read the message: it's stuck at the beginning of the message >> and doesn't say anything. But it doesn't happen every time. I've repaired >> permissions several times. I don't know - and perhaps Scott could chime in >> if he has the time - there is another application that might clear things up >> a little. Scott mentions Cocktail but I'm afraid I haven't got a clue what >> it is. I will do some search for it in Google. I, too, would like to avoid >> the strange behaviour in reading messages that you have described. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Simon >> On 30 Oct 2011, at 09:39, Scott Howell wrote: >> >>> You may want to run a permissions repair, which can be accessed via Disk >>> Utility. I had a similar problem and I actually ran Cocktail, which does a >>> number of maintenance tasks and this did correct the problem. >>> On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Johnny Angel! wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Been away from the list for a bit and trying to catch up on my mail. I >>>> haven't seen anything thus far on the list about the Lion update I got >>>> when I checked my software updates. It was a 47 minute, 900 meg update >>>> that kept me up past my beauty sleep start time. <grin> Then, after >>>> getting back into mail today, I am unhappy to see that my mail messages >>>> behavior is changed. Before the update, and since I installed Lion, When >>>> I opened a message, VO would automatically start reading the message for >>>> me. No longer. After Lion says the word group, which I never heard it >>>> say before after opening up a message, VO goes silent and I am left at the >>>> top of the body of the email message. Has anyone else downloaded the Lion >>>> update? Does everything still work as expected like before the update? >>>> Now I know that some of you power users out there are scratching your >>>> eggheads, shaking them and saying: Johnny me lad, this is no biggy. But >>>> please understand that the only power this four month old baby MacBook Pro >>>> user demonstrates is pushin the old power button to turn Mac on! <smiley> >>>> Anyway, I would like to get things back to my expected normalness. Now, >>>> I had originally set up Lion mail to be in simple, non thread mode where, >>>> status, number, sender, subject and date sent were the only things I would >>>> hear when left and right VO arrowing on a closed message. This seems to >>>> be the same. >>>> Oh and another funny thing too: >>>> It seems that at least once in a while, two finger swiping down on the >>>> trackpad hadn't work either. I saw a couple of messages on repair >>>> permissions, so I took the wise advice and did just that. But after >>>> getting back into mail, nothing was changed. >>>> Well I said all that to ask two questions: >>>> 1. How can I tell what mode my Lion mail program is in? >>>> 2. Any other ideas on what may have happened to my nice mail reading >>>> capabilities and how I may go about fixing it? >>>> Incidentally, quick nav is off like usual. >>>> Johnny Angel! >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > Johnny Angel! > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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. 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