Nic! have you tried changing the order of columns in your mail? I did it using classic view a long time ago and don't know if you can do it with standard view but it might be worth checking out. Unless, of course, I am misunderstanding your message. Jim
On Dec 19, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > The main problem for me with Mavericks Mail is that the read/unread status of > messages, and the number of messages in the thread, are announced last by > VoiceOver when navigating through the message list. This slows my progress > significantly as I have to wait for VoiceOver to announce everything else > before I get this important information. I'm interested in whether Robert and > others have this issue too, as it seems to me like something that's not > dependant on individual settings. > > My work around for this has been to turn the preview line off in the Viewing > tab of Mail Preferences. This way I don't need to listen to the message read > out before finding out whether it's read or unread, and how many messages > there are in the thread. However, this is a real drawback to me as hearing > the preview often allowed me to dismiss a message quickly without needing to > open it first. > > For clarification, I've been doing this on a 2011 MacBook Air. I use Mail in > standard view with threading turn on and the preview pane fully collapsed. I > read through the list of messages by using the up and down arrows while VO > focus is on the message list. I don't interact with the message list table > and I do not have QuickNav turned on. To read a message, I use command-o to > open it in a new window and then just use the arrow keys to read line by line > etcetera (with, of course, QuickNav still turned off). > > Best, > Nic > > -- > 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.