I agree with everything you said. I'm sorry I neglected the
navigation features in the message window. You can press ENTER for
next, F4 for next unread, and the minus or dash key for previous,
which are the ones I use all day long.
Re the message list pane, it's a big pain! Without the JAWS cursor,
as you pointed out, it doesn't speak anything reasonable at all. With
such popularity, you'd think HJ would address this or somebody would
come up with a goodd set of scripts to handle this pane. Even the
databases talk better than this pane does.
On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:32:12 -0600, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I assume that you are using the JAWS cursor to perform most of the
>necessary functions of lotus e-mail such as selecting, moving and
>deleting messages as well as selecting folders. You are certainly
>correct that this approach can be made to work, and I have also been
>using Lotus Notes in that way for most of the last year-and-a-half.
As
>you point out, virtually all of the standard Lotus Notes functions
that
>have buttons are available from a fairly standard menu system, and
you
>are also correct that most of the tool bar buttons have text labels.
>What you did not mention is that Lotus Notes has pretty good keyboard
>support for navigating between messages and folders. In fact, I
would
>say that its keyboard support is as good as any e-mail program. If
JFW
>could track the Lotus Notes Rectangle, much of the keyboard support
>already in Lotus Notes could be utilized. It completely gets you
away
>from having to look for scroll up and scroll down arrows to move to
the
>next and previous windows of messages or folders. I hope you are not
>saying that nothing should be done on this, especially since several
>other screen readers have already done it. I agree that Lotus Notes
is
>more accessible with JFW and other screen readers than some have
said.
>Yet, had Lotus allowed the text within their focus rectangle to be
>displayed in a different color, or if screen readers worked on Notes
as
>they did on Excell, many of our work tasks would have been much
easier.
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