Hi Everett,
You asked:
>I was trying to create a signature in Mail and it seems to be a bit
>confusing using VO. If someone has mastered this I'd love the step-by-
>step directions so that I don't have to figure it out myself.
>
Overview:
The signatures pane has 3 columns you can tab to: the left column lists your
email accounts, the center column lists your signatures (by name), and the
right column displays the contents of each signature. You select your email
account in the first column, then you create a signature by using the "New
Signature" button, enter a signature name (to identify it) in the Name column
and then type in the signature you want to use, corresponding to that name, in
the contents (text) column. There's a minor accessibility issue, because
you're supposed to be able to check how many signatures are assigned to a given
email account when you select that account (e.g., .Mac, AOL, gmail, etc.) in
the first column, but this number is not announced. However, you can select
the email account, and then check the entries on the "Choose signature" pop up
button or simply tab to the names column and read the signature entries.
Finally, you use the "Choose signature" pop up button to select an automatic or
manual way of adding signatures to your messages before closing the mail
preferences pane.
1. Bring up the Preferences Pane in Mail (Command-Comma)
2. Select the Signature pane in preferences. Navigate to the Signatures button
on the toolbar (Control-F5 to the toolbar, tab to "Signatures" and press
(VO-Space); or use item chooser menu (VO-I) to select the "Signatures" button
and press it)
3. Navigate (e.g. tab) to the email accounts column and interact (VO-Shift Down
Arrow). Then navigate (VO-Down Arrow) to select an email account. If you
don't first select an account, signatures will be generated under the "All
Accounts" setting, and you'll either need to use VoiceOver Drag and Drop to
move them to a specific email account or select your email account and create
them again.
4. To create a signature, use item chooser menu (VO-I) to select the "New
Signature" button and press the button (with VO-space).
5. For me, this places focus in the names column with an entry titled
"Signature #1" selected. Type a new name for the signature (e.g.
"Professional") to rename it and stop interacting (VO-Shift Up Arrow).
6. VO-Right Arrow to the contents column, interact, and type or edit your
signature. You can also paste in graphics or use special fonts, but plain text
is recommended. You may also wish to check the box for "Always match my default
message font". (Stop interacting, VO-Down Arrow to the checkbox, and VO-Space
to check the box) For this list (where a lot of people top quote), you might
want to check the "Place signature above quoted text" check box.
7. Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each new signature you wish to create. To
delete a signature, select it in the names column and use item chooser menu to
locate the "Delete Signature" button and press it (with VO-Space).
8. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each email account (or use VoiceOver Drag and
Drop to select signatures in the names column of one email account and drop
them onto another email account in the accounts column).
9. Use item chooser menu to look for "Choose signature" and VO-right arrow to
the pop up button, or simply look for the (only) pop up button. The names of
your signature(s) appear as selections on the button, along with "None", "At
Random", and "In sequential order". Choose a specific signature to be
automatically used, or one of the other selection schemes ("At Random" or "In
sequential order"). If you want to manually select your signature from a pop
up button, choose "None".
10. Close the mail preferences pane with Command-W.
Now when you compose a new message or reply to mail your signature will either
automatically be added or else you can go to the Signatures pop up button to
select your signature. (For a a new message tabbing will take you to the
button. For replies with Command-R you'll have to separately navigate there.)
HTH. Everett, this material is from the "Take Control of Apple Mail in
Leopard" guide. These are accessible PDF ebooks (no DRM, easily read in
Preview) you can download and buy from the Take Control web site or from
O'Reilly's book site. They typically run $10 or $15 a volume and are very well
written. When you purchase an ebook, there's a "Check for Updates" link on the
cover that directs you to the web site, and checks whether a more recent
revision is available for free download. The description of materials shown in
figures is excellent, and the book is linked for easy navigation to sections.
While I think most list users will not want access to this level of detail, I
think that you might. You can view the description for this guide at:
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-apple-mail
And you can download a sample section. Feel free to write to me off list if
you have questions about this. (And if you do purchase from them, use either
one of the WebKit Nightly builds or the Safari 4 Beta to avoid the bug where
you have to refresh the web page to let VoiceOver interact at the order
confirmation page).
Cheers,
Esther
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