Hi, As John mentioned, it's likely that your Preview Pane is active. When the Preview Pane is active, the status is usually misread as Mail considers something read once the Preview Pane of a message has been opened. Simply arrowing over the message causes the Preview Pane to activate so, from a VO prospective, you land on the message to determine if you wish to read it or not, and it is subsequently considered "Read". To deal with the Preview Pane, I'll paste in some instructions that I figured out back when Mavericks first came out:
>> 1. Go into Mail Prefs and select the Viewing pane. >> 2. Check to change to Classic View. >> 3. Close Mail Prefs. >> 4. Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter after the Messages Table. >> 5. Press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure the mouse is focused on the Splitter. >> 6. Press down on the Trackpad then drag downwards to the bottom of the >> physical Trackpad. >> >> You will know that it worked because the splitter will no longer be right >> after the Messages Table, it will be the last item at the bottom of the >> window. >> >> 7. Change back into Modern View in the Mail Prefs by unchecking the box. >> 8. Close the Mail Prefs. >> >> You will know that the Preview Pane is closed/hidden/disabled by navigating >> around the Mail window and you will note a Vertical Splitter before and >> after the Messages Column Group. >> >> If it's not sticking for you, try quitting Mail after getting rid of the >> Preview Pane in Classic view. Once you re-open Mail, you can change back to >> the Modern View and the change should stick. At least it has for me >> numerous times. > > Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 17, 2014, at 11:16 AM, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are you trying to view, Brian? I missed a part of this thread. Do > you have your preview pane showing? If you are talking about the status of > messages being read or unread, you have to collapse the preview pane to get > this to read correctly. > > > 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 LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > On Feb 17, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Unfortunately the view menu doesn't offer anything, as the column is there >> it just stopped saying unread next to the unread messages. Mail in Mavericks >> is so awful in every aspect, my only conclusion this is Apple's way in to >> forcing people to only use their iCloud mail accounts, as now I can't even >> get messages to open half the time when I hit return on a message, and the >> other half of the time a message will open and say empty scroll area for 20 >> seconds then lose VO focus and eventually get in to the message. Thanks >> Mavericks I feel like Mac Mail and at least my experience with it has sent >> computers back 20 years. Feels like I am trying to load a picture on a 56k >> prodigy account. >> On Feb 16, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> And the view menu there should be a columns area specify what columns are >>> in the view. Check that out. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Feb 16, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> Not sure what happened as I haven't changed any settings. In mac mail >>>> classic view in Mavericks the first column is status and two days ago it >>>> would tell me unread, replied, etc. Now that is gone. I know it is an >>>> image that tells you that, but it stopped telling me what was unread. Any >>>> idea where this setting might be located? I have looked at mail >>>> preferences, Vo verbosity, and a few other settings where it might apply >>>> but can't seem to find what has stopped it being read to me. If anyone >>>> knows please let me know. 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