Thanks very much for that Alex. I have never used Classic View before today, but you’re right, enabling it has allowed me to turn some of this stuff off. I do wish VO didn’t speak the field before the contents of each field, but at least it’s a little better than what I had. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 23/10/2013, at 2:30 pm, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
