Hi Chris,
By default, Window-Eyes by assigns the default button hotkey as Numpad Delete. In other words, when you are in a dialog that has a default button, pressing Numpad Delete will cause Window-Eyes to announce the name of the button no matter where your focus is in the dialog. For example, if you are in the Save As dialog and press this hot key, you will hear Save. On a related note, pressing Enter will activate the default button in a dialog no matter where your focus is in the dialog so many people find this information useful and can be a timesaver. So, if you want to use Numpad Delete for deleting emails in Outlook, you can try one of the following options. First, use the Window-Eyes bypass hot key Insert-B and then press Numpad Delete. Second, go into the Hotkeys node in the Window-Eyes control panel and either undefined the speak default button hot key or reassign it to something else. Please note that Num Lock needs to be turned off for this to work since the same key is used to type a period if Num Lock is on. I hope you find this info helpful. Regards, Marc From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:04:04 -0400 OK, something really weird's going on here. My laptop only has one delete key, and that is the num pad decimal key without the numlock enabled. So, I'm having a really bad issue. Basically, long story short, If I'm in say, Outlook 2013, or Thunderbird, or whatever, if I try pressing that key all by itself to delete an e-mail within the focus, it isn't working. I'm not sure what it's actually doing if anything. I know there is always hitting ctrl+D which most people don't know about, but yes, that will delete the current item, however, I only have a left control key, so that's irritating trying to make my fingers do acrobatics. I'm not trying purposefully to whine. I know it may seem that way, but it's not my entention. I just wonder if there may be another sollution to this issue. It seems like one time when I hit the key, it said no default button. I might be rememberring wrong though. I definitely do know however that the key isn't deleting the messages. This isn't a matter either of you won't see them go away until you purge the folder. I'm not using IMap where that would be an issue. I'm using POP3, and do not leave a copy on the server after being polled. If you're wonderring, ok, then how're you deleting mail on the system you're sending this e-mail from? Remember, I have more than one computer. this system is a desktop xp box, which is running NVDA, so, over here, it's not an issue. it's only on my W E enabled laptop. Any suggestions? this really along with not knowing if metro apps work that well, are really the only two things at this point stopping me from using W E as a primary screen reader on my laptop. We got the mouse pointer issue fixed. I'll be writing another mail regarding that. Chris. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
