Hi Mike,

If you're referring to the new Yahoo Mail with the applications mode enabled, 
there is a way for you to switch back.

If you change your display settings to a resolution of 800 by 600, then open up 
your Yahoo Mail in one of the internet browsers, like Internet Explorer, it 
will automatically revert back to internet layout.

I should note that this is the resolution that the gentleman from my ISP told 
me about, though he wasn't supposed to.

I am actually unsure of what minimum resolution it takes without setting back 
to the new Yahoo mail.

In any case, if you want to play around with your computer resolution, feel 
free to do so and possibly report back, but, as I said, this will switch you 
back and never ask you to go into the new Yahoo mail ever again.

Once it's back to the old style, it's just like accessing your web mail the 
traditional way.

Pressing the letter L until you hear List of 5 items, or, if you have Jaws set 
to not report the start of lists, pressing the letter L will eventually take 
you to the inbox link which you can enter on.

Once there, press the number 1 on your number row to move to the one and only 
level 1 heading, then pressing the number 2 on the number row will take you to 
the subject line of the first message in the table.

As you may or may not know, your inbox is displayed in the form of a data 
table, with a check box being in the first cell in column 1, row 1, which, if 
checked, selects all the messages, but from row 2 and down, this checkbox 
simply selects the message,  then another checkbox to flag all the messages in 
column 2, row 1, then the sender in column 3, followed by the subject line in 
column 4, and finally the date column in column 5.  If the message has an 
attachment, there will be an extra column between the sender and the subject 
line columns which will be clickable to go straight to the attachment.

In any case, when you press the number 2 on the number row, Jaws bypasses the 
header row and goes directly to the subject line of the first message.  From 
that point, you can keep hitting the number 2 to move down the list of 
messages, or you can use your table reading commands of control+alt+ the arrow 
keys to move up, down, left or right one cell.  Alternatively, you can simply 
hit the up or down keys to move along the row to the left or right respectively.

If you want to open up a message, just enter on the subject line, and, on the 
resulting page, press the number 1 on the number row to go directly to the 
message header, then the down arrow to move through the message headers, and, 
eventually, through the body of the message.

Now, you'll have to go into the options on web mail to configure how you want 
your messages displayed, the number of messages per page, whether you want the 
recent messages at the top or bottom of the list, and finally, what you want 
the site to do when you're finished with a message and you delete it or move 
it, or mark it as spam, which will either open up the next message in the list, 
or go back to the list of messages.  I should note that this does not denote 
the entire range of options within Yahoo Mail's web mail configuration, only 
the options regarding reading your messages, but you have to make sure you save 
your settings when you're done, which is at the bottom of the page on every 
screen.  There are options for configuring away messages, bulk mail folders and 
the like, and, if enabled, pop forwarding, or just plain forwarding of your 
messages to another account.

There is a trick you need to observe though.  At the top of the page in the tab 
order, where it says options, if you enter on the options link, it may appear 
to do nothing, but in actuality, another menu below it has opened, and you must 
arrow down to the link named, "Mail Options" and enter on it.  This will take 
you to your options.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if you were asking how to use Yahoo's web mail interface, 
or how to correct the accidental activation of the new Yahoo Mail.

In any case, I hope I've answered your questions.

Scorpio
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