The new safari uses a new version of webkit, which is the html engine, and yes, mail does use it as well. I have not upgraded to lion yet, and this started after installing the safari update as well. Of course, one work around is to disable notifications about misspelled words in voiceover, but we should not have to do that. On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Justin Ekis wrote:
> Hi David, > > This seems to be a recent development, and I call it a bug, myself. There is > no need to notify me about spelling problems in an email that I am reading. I > can't do anything about the spelling anyway. > > Here's a strange thing. I first saw this after upgrading to Lion, it never > happened in snow leopard. . A while after I reverted to my backup of Snow > Leopard, I installed the safari 5.1 update. Now I am getting the spelling > notifications while reading messages in mail. My first reaction is, what in > the world does a Safari update have to do with Mail? I think Mail must use > safari's html rendering to display email messages since they can contain > links, images, etc. This is the only explanation that makes even a little > sense. The change that caused this must be in that part of safari somehow.. > > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:38 PM, David Tanner wrote: > > Ok folks let me perhaps show my ignorance since I have never used Apple email > much, but I have never seen what I am seeing now. > > Everything seems to be working fine for me in email since I sat my preferred > options, but I really would prefer not to hear VoiceOver announce "misspelled > every time it comes across some sort of abbreviation. > > How do I turn of auto spellchecking in email. I don't admit to being a > perfect speller, but to hear about supposed spelling errors when I am just > reading mail is just a little too much. > > Any help here would be greatly appreciated. > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > >> Hey David. Yeah I'm getting those weird pitch changes too with the Nuance >> voices. That's why in Mail until they fix this bug I'm using Alex until they >> fix this because reading messages with Samantha sounding like a chipmunk >> scares me. >> >> Shawn >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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.
