Actually, the Quick Look function is figurative. Voice OVer works fine. 
Sometimes you have to select the previous document and then interact with the 
HTML file to read the document.  Use Command Y to open the Quick Look file and 
then play around to make it work. 
Tom Frank
vermont...@gmail.com



On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Denise Avant wrote:

> hi,
> thanks. i had tried it and the file did not open which was why i thought i 
> was suppose to use quick look attachment. but i can give your way another try 
> because these are word docs.
> 
> On Mar 5, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
> 
>> Dear Denise,
>> 
>> I am totally blind now, so I don't have any use for the quick look button in 
>> mail.  According to the Mail Help topic it is used to view images or a slide 
>> show.  Well if it is a slide show or image  VoiceOver is not going to be 
>> able to read it.  It is possible that if the images have captions then 
>> VoiceOver may be able to read them, but I cannot help  with that.
>> 
>> If the attachment is a MicroSoft Word file it should end with a .doc file 
>> type.  If you click on it with the spacebar it should open in TextEdit and 
>> you should be able to read the file.
>> 
>> I hope this helps.
>> 
>> Sincerely Yours,
>> robert Nelson
>> 
>> On Mar 5, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Denise Avant wrote:
>> 
>>> hi all,
>>> i have an e-mail with a couple of word files attached. but vo also says its 
>>> an attached image. when i do a quick look attachment, and try to open one 
>>> of them, nothing seems to happen. all i hear is html. can someone tell me 
>>> what's going on? thanks.
>>> 
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