It might be possible to assign commands using keyboard commander's navigation menu option. I'd have to play with it, but I've created navigation commands for text navigation for my laptops because there is no page up, page down, home or end keys on the smaller keyboard.
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 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > On Jan 3, 2015, at 4:06 AM, David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > An annoyance which I have not been able to get around in Apple Mail is the > apparent lack of a page up or page down command with which to navigate > within long messages. > > This is particularly irksome in long text emails where the only option > appears to be to navigate by a line or by jumping to the top or bottom of > the message. > > Page down or up does not work. VO page down and page up does not work and > produces a an error ding. Option page up or down does not work. > > Searching on Google revealed others frustrated by this as well and a > suggestion that control page down may work but this does not work for me. > > I suspect that this is a lack of attention to proper keyboard support by > Apple but thought I would check with others to see if there is any ideas for > alternative strategies. > > I know I can navigate by paragraph in non text split line emails. > > David Griffith > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.