Actually you can use columns is standard view. You just interact with a message, move to a column, and then when you press the up and down arrows, only that column is read.
HtH, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Oct 23, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Traci Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > I wish in modern view we could move around the columns. I too miss the > number conversation at the beginning, I relied on that pretty heavily. > Sheesh, if I saw a conversation was over 20, sometimes I skipped it. In > classic layout I don’t know how to get VO to announce the number inside the > conversation, it just says conversation, conversation. > > When I first looked at my email yesterday, it was acting very oddly. I was > missing a ton of messages. Now, I’m noticing they are filtering in like > crazy. My notification center keeps popping up with messages that I received > a long time ago. I’m going to have to scope out this behavior. > > Thanks, > Traci > On Oct 23, 2013, at 6:59 AM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is a setting in voice over where you can disable the announcement of >> column headers, this should turn off the reading of the title of each column. >> Original message: >>> 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 <http://Mosen.org> >> >>> On 23/10/2013, at 2:30 pm, Alex Hall >>> <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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 <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 >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries<http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>. >> >> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> [email protected] <mailto:[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 >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries<http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out<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 >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out >>> <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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