I haven't seen this message answered yet, although it's been discussed in the past. I hope I'm not answering a message that's already been answered.
I'm not sure how you're trying to do this, i.e. what browser and screen reader you're using. I'm using Orca and Firefox, and what I do is follow the link at the bottom of each message. I make sure I'm logged in with the account I used to subscribe to the group. I then click on the My Membership button right above the list of messages in the group. There's then a button that just gives my current subscription option, such as "Send a message for each post". I click on this button and a pull down menu shows up, and I can arrow to the "No messages" option. I'm not sure how much of this will work with your browser/screen reader combination. As I said, this topic has been discussed recently on the list. Here's such a message. Maybe this information will be more useful: I'm pasting in the reply I gave Teresa three months ago about how to change all membership options, including your mail preferences, nickname, and the email address you want to use for receiving list subscriptions for all mailing lists that you subscribe to via Google Groups. This and related questions have come up frequently enough of late to warrant a full post, but I personally use the search facility of the Mail Archive site to find these and other answers, including my own previous posts. I'm cc'ing this post to the viphone list, since it has the information on changing email subscription options, too. The mail-archive page for groups that are archived there is simply the posting address appended to the "www.mail-archive.com" address, so for macvisionaries the URL is: http://mail-archve.com/macvisionar...@googlegroups.com and for the viphone list the URL is: http://mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com I also use these web pages to read the list contents if I am traveling. If I am using an iOS device, I can type my search term in to the text box and press enter to find results, and then copy the URL of the relevant post to an email reply. If I am at my computer, I can read up and down the threads with access key combinations (Control-n for next message and Control-p for previous message in Safari on a Mac; for other browsers and platforms substitute the appropriate access key prefix -- such as Alt-n and Alt-p for Internet Explorer, or I think it is Alt-Shift-n and Alt-Shift-p for Firefox, etc.) Instructions on changing membership options follow: Begin forwarded message: From: Esther Subject: Re: The New Google Groups Site and viewing/changing membership options? Date: April 19, 2012 To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com Hi Teresa, You can find a single page listing of all the Google Groups you belong to using the URL: http://groups.google.com/groups/mysubs?hl=en_US&pli=1 This page has the entries for "Manage My Memberships". There's a link to "My Google Account" that will let you change your email address, password, or nickname. Continue to navigate through the page to find your entries, which are form controls, for each one of the Google Groups you subscribe to, with your nickname, and pop up menus for your email address and subscription type. Here you can change your subscription options, for example, to "No email", "Digest email", "Abridged email", or "Unsubscribe". For some of the other options, you have to use the "My Google Account" link. The pop up menu for changing your email to an alternate email address on this page only works if those alternate email addresses are available from your main "My Google Account" settings -- you can't type in a new option directly on this page for managing your settings if you're entering completely new information for your account. But you can visit this page to turn off email temporarily while you're away on vacation, or opt for the digest format. And if you want to shift the list subscription email to a different email, you can visit the "My Google Account" link, make the changes and add other valid email addresses, and then come back to this page and set the pop up menu for that address. If you are not logged into your Google Groups account, when you try to use the URL link for managing your membership settings, you'll be prompted to log in with your email address and password. The email address you type in here is the email address you used when you created your Google Groups account. It does not have to be a gmail address, and it may not be your current email address. The current email that you want to use by default is one of the account settings that you can change in this process, if you use the "My Google Account" link on the page for managing your membership settings. To log out from your Google account, you need to navigate to the menu pop up link that has your name. (This is in the old Google Groups page layout, so it might be different for you.) You could use item chooser menu (VO-I) and type in your name (e.g., "Teresa"), then navigate to the first match in the menu and press return, which will be the menu pop up link in question. Then VO-Space or else simultaneously press the up and down arrow keys if using Quick Nav mode to activate the link. The navigate to "sign out" and activate that option with VO-Space, etc. Alternatively, you can set your rotor to links, and use your arrow keys to navigate through your links menu entries. On the old Google Groups layout I see links for "Mail", "Calendar", "Documents", "Photos", "Sites", "Groups", "Search", "More", and then my name, and "Options", followed by a link for "Switch to the new Google Groups". That menu pop up link for "Options" is what shows up as the "gear menu" in the Google Groups help descriptions. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 02/10/12 09:50, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hello List, > > I need to place my membership on hold because I will be away from my main > computer for an extended period of time. I have attempted to link on the > viphone other link, which redirects me to the Internet. However, I would > appreciate it if someone could give me more explicit directions on how to do > this or a direct link, in order to complete this task. Google is very > confusing on how to accomplish this. I will not be able to manage all of the > digest that will be generated on this computer. > > Thanks in advance. > > Eileen -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
