Marty, technically you don't need to interact with the message, however this will depend on which sorts of methods you'd like to use to select / edit text. If you're using standard system commands to select and edit, no, you shouldn't need to interact with the message, if you find you can red it and navigate around in it already. However, if you'd like to use VO navigation and selection commands, if you don't interact first with the message, you may find that your selections aren't accurate. This can happen because the VO cursor is actually in a different place on the screen than your system cursor. I personally find that this can happen even if your cursors are tracking at times. So It can be a good idea to first interact in these cases.
HOpe this makes sense, and as usual, would love love love to hear others' thoughts on this…
Smiles, Cara :) On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Marty Rimpau wrote:
Hi Cara, since the reply message is in an edit field, does one need to interact with the message, or can somebody just down arrow to the part of the message he would like to select, for example, the trimming of the forwarded material at the beginning of a message? It may be necessary to interact in order to do this, so just was wondering, because it seems that, one only interacts with something if they can't read it, such as a scroll area, or something like that. On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:00:33 -0800, Cara Quinn wrote: Hi again Carla, let me go over the steps once more, as I feel like I may not have been clear enough. <smile> • Open a message you would like to trim • press command r to reply to that message • interact with the message body • Use VO arrows to navigate down to where the actual message starts that you'd like to keep • press VO return which will start selecting text • press VO shift home (this will move you to the top of your entire note) • press VO return once more to stop selecting text • press command X to cut what you've just selected • press command W • press VO space on the save button in the dialogue that comes up This should have your message saved in your drafts mailbox. If you would, please do try these steps in order, exactly as above. If theydon't work please do get back with me and we'll try something else, K?…Smiles, Cara :) On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Carla Roller wrote:okay, I now can interact with the message content and scroll down to where I want to select. I press vo/return to select, then keep arrowing down to the end of where I want to select. I hit command c because for some reason the command x won't cooperate with me. I stop interacting with the message area and go into my mailboxes table I still can't find drafts because when I hit command s to save I just hear a bell and no dialog comes up. So I try to paste into the place I want the message to live and it works with the exception of the fact that I cannot put in who sent the message in the first place and the title won't go in the subject line. If I am being too picky I will just settle for what I can get, but I would atleast like to beable to put something in the subject line. I don't necessarily need to keep up with who sent the mail directly to me, but it would be nice. Of course I am saving the mail this way so that I can forward it to others at a later date, but sometimes I go back and read it just for fun!!Thank you in advance for any further assistance, carlaClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover--- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinnClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverMartyClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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