Use the sound effects help in the VoiceOver help menu. There are several new sounds for different elements. This is why you hear various sounds when you open a mail message. To me, some are quite helpful. I also think that whether the mail message is HTML or plain text/rich text makes a difference in those delays you indicate.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Dec 17, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > In Mavericks, enter works most of the time, but I have had it fail on me. > Also, in ML, enter opened a message and read it immediately. In Mavericks, > though, the message opens, VO reads the subject as expected, and then it > reads the sender's name followed by several clicks. There is then a silence > for anywhere from one to fifteen seconds before the text itself is read. > VO-a, which I usually use to skip the subject/sender, will not work until the > text loads. As I said, this can be up to ten or fifteen seconds. So enter > does work better than vo-j, but messages sometimes take so long to load that > it becomes incredibly frustrating. Additionally, the inability to have VO say > a conversation's message count, unread status, and so on combines with the > afore mentioned problems to make Mail a horribly inefficient app for me under > Mavericks. Oh, and yes, this is under 10.9.1. > On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Terje Strømberg <terjestrmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good advice from Ricardo, backspace to delete. >> >> Here in Mountain Lion i need to have full screen in Mail to get Vo + j to >> work. Maybe you need to have full screen in Maverick Mail too? >> >> Take care >> >> 17. des. 2013 kl. 14:26 skrev alia robinson <ali...@gmail.com>: >> >>> this is untrue. when reading mail in lion vo did not say one row added in >>> classic view or modern view. It did say it in conversation view, but when >>> you vo/j on a message it read normally. I read hundreds of mail messages >>> before upgrading to mavericks, and when you were focused on the text of a >>> message with vo/j you were not interupted. >>> >>> Alia >>> On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Richard Ring <richr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> VO has said 1 row added since Snow Leopard, it is not just a mail thing, >>>> it happens in any table wher additional rows are in fact, added. >>>> If VO J isn’t working for you, try simply pressing enter on a message you >>>> wish to read, and when you’re done, press command w. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > 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.
