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 Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
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. > Kliphton > (iMessage )[email protected] [email protected] > (Twitter,Instagram,foursquare&Skype) kliphton72 > [Text only] 914-820-2298 > (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com > > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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