Yes, but it is not just VO. Bye had similar problems when I used Windows 
systems. Google regularly has problems with screenreader access.

David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
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Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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> On 22 Jan 2014, at 9:21, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think it is in settings but the idiots at Google still can’t make their 
> gmail website work with VO. I just looked at the gmail site, and I think it 
> reverted back to the view that doesn’t work with VO, and I can’t seem to find 
> the damn link for classic view or non html whatever it is called. Very 
> frustrating that Google still refuses to design their apps and stuff to work 
> with VO.
>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:13 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Gmail has a couple settings which are initially set in a confusing way. One 
>> of these settings is archive all mail. This is the default setting. It 
>> means, whenever an email is deleted, Gmail places the archive label on the 
>> message. For some reason, when Apple mail first sees these old messages, it 
>> assigns them back to the original inbox folder. I ended up with over 140,000 
>> email messages since 2005.
>> 
>> The solution is: go to
>> www.gmail.com
>> and log-in to your gmail account. Find the preferences or settings page (I 
>> do not remember what it is called), and locate the how to handle deleted 
>> messages. Change this setting from permanently archive to delete. Another 
>> setting found in this area is POP3 or IMAP. These are checkboxes, so Gmail 
>> can be set to do both at the same time. I used to do this, but found 
>> occasional headaches from it, so changed everything to IMAP.
>> 
>> I am currently in the process of deleting all my older messages. I 
>> occasionally sort out important messages during the process. I am doing this 
>> on my iPhone as the mail interface makes more sense to me. I am down to 
>> 44,000 messages at this point.
>> 
>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>> Email: [email protected]
>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 22 Jan 2014, at 4:15, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey Nicholas,
>>> 
>>> Bingo I think you hit the problem right on the head, as I just looked at 
>>> this all mail folder and there are 96,000 messages in it. What the heck is 
>>> this folder, as I looked and there are emails I deleted years ago. Is there 
>>> a way to manage this folder in any settings or get some sighted assistance 
>>> to purge some mail on the gmail website. Where do I find the activity menu 
>>> to see what mail is doing? Will explore around for it, but not sure where 
>>> it is. Thanks,
>>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Nicholas Parsons 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Bryan,
>>>> 
>>>> First thing, about how many messages altogether do you have in gMail? 
>>>> Meaning in your All Mail folder. If it's in the tens of thousands, or 
>>>> hundreds of thousands, then I think I know what the problem is.
>>>> 
>>>> Second, is your All Mail folder enabled for IMAP? It should be.
>>>> 
>>>> I by no means an expert on this issue—I don't think anybody is. There 
>>>> seems to be lots of different issues and neither Apple or much of the tech 
>>>> community seems to really know or agree on what's going on. But what I 
>>>> think is happening is that Mavericks Mail has to re-download and 
>>>> reconfigure every message you have in gMail. Most of us have plenty of 
>>>> messages, easily in the tens of thousands, and some people even have 
>>>> hundreds of thousands. So when you launch Mail after recently installing 
>>>> Mavericks, if you show the activity window with command-option-0, you'll 
>>>> notice that Mail is busy accessing the gMail server and checking and 
>>>> downloading all your messages. Even for a reasonably small account this 
>>>> can take a long time. I left my Mac online with Mail running but nothing 
>>>> else for a couple of days. This seemed to allow it to get up and running. 
>>>> So I'd suggest you close every application and stop as many other online 
>>>> services as you can from operating, then just open Mail and leave your Mac 
>>>> online for a good long time. Meaning at least 24 hours. Just leave it, and 
>>>> don't do anything else with it, certainly not with Mail. Configure your 
>>>> energy preferences so your Mac doesn't go to sleep. Check the Mail 
>>>> activity every few hours to check that it's making progress. If it seems 
>>>> to have frozen, quit it and re-launch.
>>>> 
>>>> Best of luck,
>>>> Nic
>>>> 
>>>>> On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:04 pm, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would love any advice from those of you not having any problems with 
>>>>> Gmail and Macmail. After  a day and a half of everything working fine, I 
>>>>> had my busy busy problems again. I called Apple and spoke to their 
>>>>> VoiceOver people and they kept insisting that my problem wasn’t a gmail 
>>>>> and mac mail problem. I connected via remote session with Apple, and the 
>>>>> specialist was claiming my issue was caused by my other mail account from 
>>>>> go daddy. It took us a good hour to check settings, and mail was 
>>>>> constantly caught in a busy loop, after that did nothing, I did a system 
>>>>> repair which Apple felt would fix the mail busy issue. I am not going to 
>>>>> go in to the bad set of instructions that Apple gave me for a VoiceOVer 
>>>>> user to do a repair. So the repair finally finishes and as soon as I 
>>>>> launch mail, busy busy busy. I decided to delete my gmail account from 
>>>>> mail to see if mail worked with just my go daddy account, and sure enough 
>>>>> mail worked fine, so bingo it is definitely a gmail problem. What angers 
>>>>> me so much is Apple’s claim that the fix they released in December fixed 
>>>>> the gmail and mac mail issue. The whole reason I held off upgrading to 
>>>>> Mavericks was because of the gmail issue. Not sure how they can claim the 
>>>>> issue is fixed when it is obviously gmail causing my problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do have a ton of email in gmail that I keep saved in folders, but this 
>>>>> was never an issue with gmail and Lion. Does anyone have any suggestions? 
>>>>> I deleted all my trash in mac mail, and this did nothing either. Anyone 
>>>>> who has gone through something like this and figured out a fix would love 
>>>>> to hear it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for listening.
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