Hi, When you say double click do you mean tap? I only ask as I don't thiink the track pad has a click does it? Thanks.
matthew Dyer matthew Dyer Sent from my mac mini. e-mail/msn: [email protected] Skype: graduater 2004 Follow me on twitter at mdyer1. Facebook: [email protected] Find me on zello at graduater2004. On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Here's a post of Tim Kilburn's on this subject; it helped me when nothing > else completely did. > "Try the following. > > 1. Removing the Preview Pane in Classic layout: > > • Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter that is to the right of the Messages > table. > • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if needed). This will bring the mouse to the VO > cursor and announce where the mouse is and it should read "Horizontal > Splitter". > • Double-click on your Trackpad or alternatively, you can press near the top > of the Trackpad and drag to the bottom. Make sure in this case that you > actually make the Trackpad button depress so that the drag action will work. > > 2. Removing the Preview Pane for non-Classic layout: > > • Navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column > Group. > • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if necessary) to bring the mouse to the VO cursor. > It will announce Vertical Splitter if it did what it was supposed to do. > • Double-click on the Trackpad or alternatively, put your finger near the > left hand side of the Trackpad, then drag to the far right and release. As > in the first case, make sure that you depress the Trackpad button so that the > dragging process will occur. > > Note that in the Classic layout, you are dealing with a Horizontal Splitter > and in the non-Classic layout, you are dealing with a Vertical Splitter. Each > case requires a different dragging direction if you choose that option. > > There are a couple of ways of determining if it worked. Firstly, you can > navigate around the Mail screen and if you don't hear anything about "Message > Content Area", life is good. > > The second method is a little more complicated but tells you for sure. In > Classic layout, navigate to the Horizontal Splitter to the right of the "New > Mailbox Action" menu. You'll notice two Horizontal splitters, one after the > Messages Table and this one that I'm talking about. Once you've located this > Horizontal Splitter, Interact with it and press VO-down. Vo will announce > "Collapsed" which is what you want to hear. In non-Classic layout, navigate > to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group and > Interact with it. Press VO-right and VO will announce "Collapsed" if the > Preview pane is gone." > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Try just double clicking the splitter. Move to it, route your mouse cursor >> to it with vo-cmd-f5, then hit vo-shift-space twice quickly. If you are not >> on Mountain Lion, you may have more trouble with this. >> On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Nicholas Parsons >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I've read that one can hide the preview pane in the three column view in >>> Mail. This way, messages won't be marked as read unless you open them in a >>> separate window. Currently I find it a little annoying that messages are >>> marked as read when I've only read their subject line and not the full >>> message. >>> >>> However, I've been unable to work out how to do this with VoiceOver. >>> Apparently one need only drag the vertical splitter between the message >>> list and the preview pane all the way to the right. However, when I try >>> interacting with this vertical splitter and VO-right arrowing all the way >>> to the right until VoiceOver reads 100%, the preview pane is still visible >>> to VoiceOver and messages still marked as read when I focus on them in the >>> message list even when I haven't actually read them. >>> >>> Has anyone else had any success with this? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Nic >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [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. 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