Enter will--or should--focus you on the body of the message. It may take a second, but it should do it. That was made much better in 10.11, so I have to first ask if you're running the latest macOS version? If so, is cursor tracking on? Press vo-shift-f3 to make sure it is; if you hear "cursor tracking on", awesome! If you hear that it is now off, press the command again to turn it back on. You nearly always want this on.
If pressing enter absolutely will NOT work, many people like to use the preview pane. On a message, hit vo-j and VO will read the message as it focuses on the text in the preview pane. If you've closed that pane in the past, vo-j will instead jump you to the mailboxes table, or perhaps go nowhere if you have your mailboxes hidden. If that happens, let us know which macOS version you have so we can advise on how to open the panel. The main problem I have with this method is that any message you arrow past will be marked as "read", even if you didn't read it. Mail shows any focused message in the preview pane, and considers it read if that happens. Since VO focuses on a message as you arrow to it, that causes the message to be displayed and thus read, even if you arrowed right past it and didn't truly read it at all. > On Aug 13, 2016, at 06:45, Sandra E. Finley <finleykn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have never been able to efficiently read the body of an email message and > it is very annoying. > The only way I can read the text is to down arrow a couple of times and > then swipe down or continue down arrowing. Here is what I have tried: > . > I open email messages with either enter or command o. In both cases VO says, > "message headers." Then I attempt to read the message in several ways: > > swipe down with two fingers: VO says "message headers." > > VO a (read contents of > > VO b (read from beginning) same result b: ((read from beginning): I get > the little "bong" error message. > > Because I have a lap top with no control key on the right, I have set up > keyboard commanders with right option: > option v read contents of vo cursor and > option b read from beginning, and I get the same result. > > Any ideas what the problem is? Thanks. > > Sandy Finley > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
