I am not running OS 10.9 yet, but it sounds like you have disabled Classic View. I don't use that feature, but what you describe - the ability to decide exactly what get spoken with each message - is Classic View behavior. Open Mail Preferences, and see if you can find the Classic View setting checkbox. That might work, I am not sure. On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone, so far I must say I’m disappointed with Mail in Mavericks. > Mail in Mavericks has become way to chatty for my tastes and I’m hoping I’ve > just missed a setting to make it stop. > In Mountain Lion, I had my message list set up so all I heard was the sender, > and the subject. If there was an attachment, I heard that too. Now it seems > the time that the message was sent and some other stuff that just slows me > down is included and I haven’t found a way to turn it off. > Second, the number of messages in a conversation is now spoken at the end, > after the message header details and the message preview. I’d prefer the old > behaviour, where I heard how big the conversation was at the very beginning. > And finally, I used to get from my message list to the email i wanted to read > by pressing VO+J. The message would immediately start to read. Now it seems a > first press of VO+J does nothing at all, and to do the same thing that once > took 1 press of VO+J now takes three. I think this latter one is a bug. > I’ve really enjoyed using Mail in Mountain Lion but if I can’t get the chatty > behaviour under control, will run Outlook in a VM. > Thanks for any thoughts. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
