The best way I found so far to deal with that issue is to press enter on the message, control to interrupt voiceover so that it doesn't say the whole sentence "... message content scroll area", then tab shift tab and the message is spoken automatically. A heavy procedure though. On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Mike, > > I presume you prefer to read mail without the preview pane. In that case, all > the advice about VO-j is useless. Apple has broken Mail for those of us who > read without using the Preview pane. You have to either read line by line > with the arrow keys or interact then use VO-a to read the message. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On Jun 30, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I don't know what I did to precipitate this change, but Mail is behaving >> slightly differently than it used to. >> >> Yesterday, I was notified about a new version of Mail, and I downloaded it. >> I may have made some other changes as well, but the problem I am now having >> isn't serious, but it's a pain, nonetheless. >> >> Whenever going through messages in the message table, I used to be able to >> press Enter on the message I wanted to hear and Voice Over would >> automatically begin to read the text portion of the message. This is no >> longer the case, and I'd love to know how to restore the old behavior. Now, >> I have to first interact with the text and then press VO A to hear the >> message. It is far more time-consuming than I would like. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas about how to get my system to revert to the >> earlier behavior, and thanks in advance, >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
