I think it has to do with you trying to drag and drop right after one another. I got this same message, but when I went back a few minutes later it let me perform the task. Kliphton SR (twitter) http://twitter.com/kliphton72 (Marriage Blog) http://cm-i-t-real-world.blogspot.com Sent from my IMac
On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Brett C. wrote: > Thanks for your ideas. I have a question. When I try to remove a box I added > to the favorites bar, I use VO comma to select it for drag, and get the > message Inbox - Blog is not draggable. VoiceOver will not drag item that > has press action.. Blog is just the name of the box I'm trying to remove. Do > you see this? > > > Brett C. > > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >>> Hi all, >> >> In playing with various things in Mail's new view, you may be interested in >> these ideas that I have found. They work for me and have sped up navigation >> in Mail considerably. You are welcome to use whatever works for you and >> ignore anything that doesn't fit your frame of mind. The two things I'll >> touch on here are use of the Favourites bar and Conversations. >> >> Favourites: >> >> • You can put your favourite Mailboxes into the Favourites bar by dragging >> and dropping them there. >> • The order they appear in the Favourites bar allows you to use the cmd key >> to quickly get to specific boxes. That is, the first item in the Favourite >> bar would be cmd-1, the second would be cmd-2 and so on. >> • When you drop something into the Favourites bar, it will land just after >> or to the right of the item you are focused on. >> • You can use this method to re-order items in the Favourites bar. >> • To remove an unwanted item from the Favourites bar, simply drag it off. >> That is, grab it and release it outside of the Favourites bar. I just drop >> it on the divider and its gone. >> • Now with minimal keystrokes, I can get between Mailboxes and right after I >> press cmd-1 for example, VO automatically brings focus to the Messages area >> where I can just use up and down arrows to navigate. >> • I also do not need the Mailboxes list shown either unless I wish to get to >> a less used Mailbox. It is easy to Show/Hide by pressing cmd-shift-m. >> >> Conversations: >> >> Not perfect yet but much easier for me using the following: >> >> • Arrow up or down and let VO announce the message and how many messages in >> the Conversation. >> • I just press return when I wish to read stuff in that Conversation. The >> problem is that it always reads the newest one first and suggestions to fix >> that haven't worked for me as I prefer my Messages Table to have the newest >> at the top and my Conversations to have the oldest at the top. >> • anyway, to get around this, I Stop Interacting with the Message content, >> then if I VO-left arrow through the messages in the Conversation, it does >> the trick. >> • If I press cmd-w, it closes the entire conversation. >> >> Hope this helps some of you. Any other ideas are welcome. >> >> Later… >> >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
