Hello Veronica,
I'm confused by what you're seeing, too.
When you're on the messages table but not interacting, what happens when you
press VO-Down Arrow? You should find a horizontal splitter and not be able to
go down any further.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hi Anne!
Okay, you're right. When not interacting with the table, I pressed
VO-down-arrow and there it was! Horrizontal splitter. Is this the one
I should then route my mouse to and double tap? Oh so close! lol.
Thanks.
Veronica
At 11:36 PM 4/17/2012, you wrote:
Hello Veronica,
I'm
Woo hoo! This explanation finally did the trick for me. Mail is now behaving as
I want it to. Yippee! Thanks for your patience, all of you. Hopefully one day
down the road, I'll be able to do the same for someone else who is new to the
Mac and VoiceOver.
Thanks again.
Veronica
On Apr 18,
Hello Veronica,
If you are not interacting with the messages table and just navigating up and
down with the arrow keys, VO should announce unread, reply was sent, message
was forwarded, and so on, but not Read. However, if you interact with the
messages table, the status column will say Blank
Thanks Anne. Next time I'm reading mail I'll see what happens with
the new messages that come in.
Thanks.
Veronica
At 01:32 AM 4/17/2012, you wrote:
Hello Veronica,
If you are not interacting with the messages table and just
navigating up and down with the arrow keys, VO should announce
Okay, I went into Mail and new messages downloaded automatically. I then just
used arrow keys to move through the messages. They all just said blank blank
blank before the name of the sender, etc. Hmmm, what am I missing here?
Thanks.
Veronica
On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Veronica Elsea
Hello Veronica,
It sounds as though the preview pane is still there and the messages are being
opened as you arrow down through them.
How do you read your messages? I read mine by pressing Return, then I close
them with Cmd-w. If VO-j takes you to the body of the messages, then the
preview
Okay, you might be right. And in the act of trying, I seem to have
made a mess of mail. grin
Here's what I have.
When I first open Mail, it says inbox, so many messages, so many
unread. VO says messages table is under the cursor. I can open a
message with enter and VO-J does take me to the
Hi everyone!
I too managed to turn off the preview pane. I did the double tap on
the track pad of my macbook air. It didn't say anything or make a
sound, but the preview pane did in fact disappear. Here's my question.
I also went into the view menu and turned off conversations. Now it
does not
