Hi Ray, I believe that Alex received the initial instructions from an Apple Support person. I more or less used some of those instructions along with my own experience to come up with my instructions. I, like Alex, had everything the way it should be after my update to Mavericks and then decided to do some testing after seeing some of the frustration expressed on this list. Being the cocky person that I am, I thought I’d have no problems. Stupid me. After lots of fussing, some assistance from my sighted wife, and some investigation on the web, I determined that this is an issue for sighted folks too.
So, I was able to fix things using the steps I outlined after some time and frustration. The messed up view where your ToolBar is in an odd location is usually fixed after quitting and re-opening Mail. I’m wondering if you could add an extra step into this that might help it to work for you. When you’ve navigated to the Horizontal Splitter, Interact with it, then move with VO-up or VO-down. VO should announce percentage values relating to the size of the Preview pane. Now use VO-cmd-f5 to route the mouse to the VO location, then perform the drag down of the Horizontal Splitter to see if it works for you. Also, for accuracy sake, take a look in your VO settings under the Visuals section, make sure that your VO Cursor magnification is set to 1. This should make sure that the mouse is going where it’s supposed to. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, > > After fooling with the instructions to get rid of the preview pain, it’s > still there. > > Problem seems to be that I just cannot get rid of the damn horizontal > splitter and make it go to the botton of the mail window. > > Now, when I open mail, (in standard view) I land on my mail box table and > find that as I arrow message to message, it tells me that the message is > selected. This would seem to indicate that preview pain is still on. Would > I be better off getting rid of the mail preferences file and jus rebuilding > the account from scratch? IF so, I cannot seem to find the mail prefs file > in Library/Preferences. Seems to me there’s got to be a better way than this. > > Here’s exactly what I did. > > 1. Hide tool bar and favorites bar also. > > 2. Pressed zoom. > > 3. Go in to the prefs window and select for classic view. > > 4. Came out of prefs window and noticed that the horizontal splitter was > just imedately to the right of the message table. > > 5. Next, I pressed VO+CMD+F5 to rout the track pad mouse directly to that > spliter. > > 6. Next, pressed down on top of track pad making sure that it clicked when > pressed and held finger there. > > 7. With finger still on track pad, slide finger down till I could move it no > longer. Heard nothing change. > > 8. I then let off the track pad. > > 9. Now, When I check again, I notice that the horizontal spliter is still > right next to the message table. > > > Now, I’m almost at the end of my rope with this. > > Did you call > 1800-692-7753 > to solve this or did you call the special accessibility number? > > I guess I’ll have to pay for the support since my Apple care is up. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > -- > 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.
