Here's a post of Tim Kilburn's on this subject; it helped me when nothing else completely did. "Try the following.
1. Removing the Preview Pane in Classic layout: • Navigate to the Horizontal Splitter that is to the right of the Messages table. • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if needed). This will bring the mouse to the VO cursor and announce where the mouse is and it should read "Horizontal Splitter". • Double-click on your Trackpad or alternatively, you can press near the top of the Trackpad and drag to the bottom. Make sure in this case that you actually make the Trackpad button depress so that the drag action will work. 2. Removing the Preview Pane for non-Classic layout: • Navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group. • Press VO-cmd-f5 (add FN if necessary) to bring the mouse to the VO cursor. It will announce Vertical Splitter if it did what it was supposed to do. • Double-click on the Trackpad or alternatively, put your finger near the left hand side of the Trackpad, then drag to the far right and release. As in the first case, make sure that you depress the Trackpad button so that the dragging process will occur. Note that in the Classic layout, you are dealing with a Horizontal Splitter and in the non-Classic layout, you are dealing with a Vertical Splitter. Each case requires a different dragging direction if you choose that option. There are a couple of ways of determining if it worked. Firstly, you can navigate around the Mail screen and if you don't hear anything about "Message Content Area", life is good. The second method is a little more complicated but tells you for sure. In Classic layout, navigate to the Horizontal Splitter to the right of the "New Mailbox Action" menu. You'll notice two Horizontal splitters, one after the Messages Table and this one that I'm talking about. Once you've located this Horizontal Splitter, Interact with it and press VO-down. Vo will announce "Collapsed" which is what you want to hear. In non-Classic layout, navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column Group and Interact with it. Press VO-right and VO will announce "Collapsed" if the Preview pane is gone." -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try just double clicking the splitter. Move to it, route your mouse cursor to > it with vo-cmd-f5, then hit vo-shift-space twice quickly. If you are not on > Mountain Lion, you may have more trouble with this. > On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I've read that one can hide the preview pane in the three column view in >> Mail. This way, messages won't be marked as read unless you open them in a >> separate window. Currently I find it a little annoying that messages are >> marked as read when I've only read their subject line and not the full >> message. >> >> However, I've been unable to work out how to do this with VoiceOver. >> Apparently one need only drag the vertical splitter between the message list >> and the preview pane all the way to the right. However, when I try >> interacting with this vertical splitter and VO-right arrowing all the way to >> the right until VoiceOver reads 100%, the preview pane is still visible to >> VoiceOver and messages still marked as read when I focus on them in the >> message list even when I haven't actually read them. >> >> Has anyone else had any success with this? >> >> Cheers >> Nic >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > mehg...@gmail.com > > > > -- > 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.
