Thanks for your ideas. I have a question. When I try to remove a box I added to the favorites bar, I use VO comma to select it for drag, and get the message Inbox - Blog is not draggable. VoiceOver will not drag item that has press action.. Blog is just the name of the box I'm trying to remove. Do you see this?
Brett C. On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi all, > > In playing with various things in Mail's new view, you may be interested in > these ideas that I have found. They work for me and have sped up navigation > in Mail considerably. You are welcome to use whatever works for you and > ignore anything that doesn't fit your frame of mind. The two things I'll > touch on here are use of the Favourites bar and Conversations. > > Favourites: > > • You can put your favourite Mailboxes into the Favourites bar by dragging > and dropping them there. > • The order they appear in the Favourites bar allows you to use the cmd key > to quickly get to specific boxes. That is, the first item in the Favourite > bar would be cmd-1, the second would be cmd-2 and so on. > • When you drop something into the Favourites bar, it will land just after or > to the right of the item you are focused on. > • You can use this method to re-order items in the Favourites bar. > • To remove an unwanted item from the Favourites bar, simply drag it off. > That is, grab it and release it outside of the Favourites bar. I just drop > it on the divider and its gone. > • Now with minimal keystrokes, I can get between Mailboxes and right after I > press cmd-1 for example, VO automatically brings focus to the Messages area > where I can just use up and down arrows to navigate. > • I also do not need the Mailboxes list shown either unless I wish to get to > a less used Mailbox. It is easy to Show/Hide by pressing cmd-shift-m. > > Conversations: > > Not perfect yet but much easier for me using the following: > > • Arrow up or down and let VO announce the message and how many messages in > the Conversation. > • I just press return when I wish to read stuff in that Conversation. The > problem is that it always reads the newest one first and suggestions to fix > that haven't worked for me as I prefer my Messages Table to have the newest > at the top and my Conversations to have the oldest at the top. > • anyway, to get around this, I Stop Interacting with the Message content, > then if I VO-left arrow through the messages in the Conversation, it does the > trick. > • If I press cmd-w, it closes the entire conversation. > > Hope this helps some of you. Any other ideas are welcome. > > Later… > > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
