The interaction thing is probably the most confusing but yet powerful
part of VoiceOver.  What I do with my setup in Mail is to interact
with the list of mail boxes which can actually be navigated as a tree
view with expanded and collapsed nodes.  Anyway, once I choose the
mail box I want to work with, I just hit tab without uninteracting;
this puts me on the table of messages for that mail box.  I then
interact with the table of messages.  Now I can move up and down the
list with or without VO keys pressed.  the advantage to not using VO
keys while pressing the arrow keys is I can then use the left and
right arrow keys to collaps and expand nodes respectively.  I should
have noted while talking about the mail box list that if I use the VO
enhanced arrow keys so I then hear the index levels of the boxes
because the ones at "level 0" cannot be accessed directly. An example
of this would be Inbox; in my case, I have two accounts so I have
Inbox and under that I have my two gmail controled accounts.

I am using the modern view with the message preview pane disabled

On 5/1/12, Veronica Elsea <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> I figured this out today and thought I'd share it here in case it helped
> anyone else.
> Just in case it matters, I didn't make smart mailboxes, only regular dumb
> ones. <grin.> When I'd arrow through my mailboxes table to choose a mailbox,
> then when I'd tab back to the messages table VO would only  read one icon,
> rather than reading all that I'd chosen. First I figured out that each time
> I selected a mailbox, if I then exited mail and opened it again, that first
> mailbox would behave properly. Now I've figured out that when I go into the
> messages table, if I am on a message, ask VO to interact, VO says no text to
> interact with, then I uninteract with this nothing, then everything reads
> fine in that bunch of messages.
> It shouldn't be, and it's a bit weird, but at least I have a work-around.
> I'd be curious to hear from any of you who have multiple mailboxes set up.
> Oh, by the way, I'm using pop mail.
> Anyway, I hope this helps someone.
>
> Veronica
>
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