Actually those preferences are the first thing I played with. I’ve found no way 
to silence the time every message was received as I arrow through the message 
list. If you ahve found a way it would be great to get more info.
Jonathan Mosen
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On 23/10/2013, at 9:54 pm, Kliphton ------- <[email protected]> wrote:

> You didn’t have to turn classic view on for that. You could have whent to 
> preferences, viewing, and then went to header.  There is an option in that 
> setting to customize what you hear.  The one thing I haven’t been able to get 
> rid of, is voice over saying “imbedded”  before reading each email, 
> conversation or not.
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> On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks very much for that Alex.
>> I have never used Classic View before today, but you’re right, enabling it 
>> has allowed me to turn some of this stuff off. I do wish VO didn’t speak the 
>> field before the contents of each field, but at least it’s a little better 
>> than what I had.
>> Jonathan Mosen
>> Mosen Consulting
>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
>> http://Mosen.org
>> 
>> On 23/10/2013, at 2:30 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am not running OS 10.9 yet, but it sounds like you have disabled Classic 
>>> View. I don't use that feature, but what you describe - the ability to 
>>> decide exactly what get spoken with each message - is Classic View 
>>> behavior. Open Mail Preferences, and see if you can find the Classic View 
>>> setting checkbox. That might work, I am not sure.
>>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone, so far I must say I’m disappointed with Mail in Mavericks.
>>>> Mail in Mavericks has become way to chatty for my tastes and I’m hoping 
>>>> I’ve just missed a setting to make it stop.
>>>> In Mountain Lion, I had my message list set up so all I heard was the 
>>>> sender, and the subject. If there was an attachment, I heard that too. Now 
>>>> it seems the time that the message was sent and some other stuff that just 
>>>> slows me down is included and I haven’t found a way to turn it off.
>>>> Second, the number of messages in a conversation is now spoken at the end, 
>>>> after the message header details and the message preview. I’d prefer the 
>>>> old behaviour, where I heard how big the conversation was at the very 
>>>> beginning.
>>>> And finally, I used to get from my message list to the email i wanted to 
>>>> read by pressing VO+J. The message would immediately start to read. Now it 
>>>> seems a first press of VO+J does nothing at all, and to do the same thing 
>>>> that once took 1 press of VO+J now takes three. I think this latter one is 
>>>> a bug.
>>>> I’ve really enjoyed using Mail in Mountain Lion but if I can’t get the 
>>>> chatty behaviour under control, will run Outlook in a VM.
>>>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>>> Jonathan Mosen
>>>> Mosen Consulting
>>>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
>>>> http://Mosen.org
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Have a great day,
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