Actually, another trick to viewing messages in the preview pane is to just press the tab key when you are interacting with the messages table. So when you're on a message of interest, just press tab to view it, then when you are done, press shift tab. You will be back in your messages table, and at least with Snow Leopard, voice over will still be interacting with the table. I find this a great way to view messages, but to each their own. Take care.
Jes On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > M. Taylor wrote: > >> Question: >> How does one remove the preview pane? > > To remove the preview pane in the Mail application > > 1. Navigate (e.g. with VO-Right arrow) past the "Messages Table" to > where you hear "Horizontal Splitter". > 2. Route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor with VO-Command-F5 > 3. Double-click on the splitter either using VO-Shift-Space or by > pressing your physical mouse key or trackpad key twice quickly. To > double click with VO-Shift-Space, hold down your Control, Option, and > Shift keys then tap the space bar twice quickly. You should also be > able to double-click by quickly pressing the "5" key twice on a > numeric keypad with Numpad Commander enabled (only in Leopard or Snow > Leopard, not Tiger). > > Anne has mentioned that using VO-Shift-Space doesn't always work as a > substitute for clicking or double-clicking, while clicking with mouse > or trackpad (or by using the Numpad Commander option) will work. This > can true for some applications with transitioning accessibility, but > I've always found it to work in commonly used applications like mail. > > The two clicks must be close together. If you click once, the system > expects that you will be issuing commands to move the splitter (e.g. > by interacting with it and using your arrow keys). The second click > tells it that you do not want to adjust it, but to drop it all the > way. Note that you will never be able to do this if such an action > hides an essential window that means you cannot effectively use the > app. I can move splitters with double-click to remove informational > windows in Automator; I can't remove any windows that are essential to > my using the application. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
