You didn’t have to turn classic view on for that. You could have whent to preferences, viewing, and then went to header. There is an option in that setting to customize what you hear. The one thing I haven’t been able to get rid of, is voice over saying “imbedded” before reading each email, conversation or not. Kliphton (iMessage )kliph...@icloud.com-Email kliphton....@outlook.com (Twitter,Instagram,foursquare&Skype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com
On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > Thanks very much for that Alex. > I have never used Classic View before today, but you’re right, enabling it > has allowed me to turn some of this stuff off. I do wish VO didn’t speak the > field before the contents of each field, but at least it’s a little better > than what I had. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > On 23/10/2013, at 2:30 pm, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am not running OS 10.9 yet, but it sounds like you have disabled Classic >> View. I don't use that feature, but what you describe - the ability to >> decide exactly what get spoken with each message - is Classic View behavior. >> Open Mail Preferences, and see if you can find the Classic View setting >> checkbox. That might work, I am not sure. >> On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, so far I must say I’m disappointed with Mail in Mavericks. >>> Mail in Mavericks has become way to chatty for my tastes and I’m hoping >>> I’ve just missed a setting to make it stop. >>> In Mountain Lion, I had my message list set up so all I heard was the >>> sender, and the subject. If there was an attachment, I heard that too. Now >>> it seems the time that the message was sent and some other stuff that just >>> slows me down is included and I haven’t found a way to turn it off. >>> Second, the number of messages in a conversation is now spoken at the end, >>> after the message header details and the message preview. I’d prefer the >>> old behaviour, where I heard how big the conversation was at the very >>> beginning. >>> And finally, I used to get from my message list to the email i wanted to >>> read by pressing VO+J. The message would immediately start to read. Now it >>> seems a first press of VO+J does nothing at all, and to do the same thing >>> that once took 1 press of VO+J now takes three. I think this latter one is >>> a bug. >>> I’ve really enjoyed using Mail in Mountain Lion but if I can’t get the >>> chatty behaviour under control, will run Outlook in a VM. >>> Thanks for any thoughts. >>> Jonathan Mosen >>> Mosen Consulting >>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training >>> http://Mosen.org >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> 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 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
