Quick reply from Notification Centre

By Dave Nason, 5 November, 2013

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi All, In Mavericks, Apple have apparently added the ability to quickly reply to iMessages and (I think) emails from within the notification centre without having to open up the Messages or Mail app. Sighted users do this I believe by hovering the mouse over the notification and selecting "Reply", but I can't figure out how to do it with VoiceOver. Does anyone know? Thanks.

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I don't think this is possible.

Hi, I don't think this is possible right no with VoiceOver. However, I could be wrong, so if I am, I'll reply back with how to do it.

Correction: I'm wrong.

It turns out I'm wrong. You need to have your notifications for messages and mail set to an alert. Once you do that, you can click the reply button and reply within the notification itself.

Thanks

Thanks Daniel. Indeed, I had them set to banner notifications so cheers for the heads-up. Now I just hope they hurry up and add a quick reply feature to iOS as well :)

What About Banners

I'm pretty sure sighted people can reply to banners, but perhaps only for the brief moment that banner is displayed on screen. Is there any way to do this with VoiceOver? Also, what about for all the notifications I find in Notification Center on returning to my Mac after time away? IN particular, I'm thinking of Facebook notifications.

Uh, I never got that to work.

Uh, I never got that to work. I never saw an alert or what not in my mail notifications. Can I already released the mavericks how to and yeah there was not reply or what not for the mail alerts. If I need to do a slight correction I can do that, just not now. lol! Maybe it's operator error and if it is I will correct it some how maybe in a separate file. I love learning things. On the other hand though. If you have an alert set of for mail, and you get a lot of it, won't that keep popping up in your face? I have mine set as a banner. Maybe that's where I went wrong? Tae care.

Yeah in my mavericks how to I

Yeah in my mavericks how to I have mine set to banners and I could not find a way to do this. Bleh! An issue apple needs to fix maybe?

Ok with further testing the

Ok with further testing the alerts do work, how ever it only reads a part of the message there seems to be no way to see the whole thing. this is true in mail and messages where the interactive alerts do work. Again this is not possible with banners so be aware of that.