Carlos,
Thank you very much, you provided me with a lot of useful information. What
I am finding out is that the problems I was having with getting Outlook
Express to begin to read the message sometimes, and the fact that it only
reads one page at a time are lessons learned by a newbie the hard way, by
trial and error, and thankfully help from experienced users like you.
Thanks for the tips on how to read the pages and how to go between jaws
cursor mode and PC cursor mode and how each of those are used. I really
appreciate your last tip about how to get the link list using the insert F7,
from my reading I thought there was a way to get this, but I hadn't figured
out exactly how to accomplish it yet. That was a great help.
Thanks again,
Debbie
-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos A. Sanchez, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debbie Scales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: A Newbie/Outlook Express
>Debby Hi,
>One thing about outlook express and internet explorer that a lot of new
>users are not accustomed to is that you can not use the say all command,
and
>the read previous, current, and next line commands like you normally would
>in editing type programs like microsoft word. Unlike other screen readers,
>where you are able to read continuously, jaws only reads these type of
>read-only screens, like thos in IE and with OE, one screen at a time.
The
>keys to read in this way are page up or page down. Usually, though, upon
>accessing these messages with the enter key, their contents are read
>automatically.
>howver, if they are not, I usually press insert + f5 to reformat the page
>and that usualy gets the reading going. When the curser stops at the end
of
>the scren you may hit page down to see if there is more of the message to
>read.
>There are two ways, however, that you can make jaws read line by line and
>word by word like you wish but they require that you press control + page
>down to scrol the screen. IN other words, they are limited to the text
that
>is currently on the screen. With the jaws curser, you can start reading
the
>current page by pressing control + insert + down arrow. When you hear
>something in the middle of that screen like a name or URL that you want to
>read more carefully, you can press the control key to stop speech, and with
>your navigation keys on the jaws key pad o rnumpad, you can move to the
>specific location you want to read and check that word's spellling, if you
>want, like you normally would when in a word processor. If you would like
>to continue reading the rest of that screen, you may press insert + down
>arrow key to do a say all command. When the reading is stopped you can
>press page down again to read. You may discover this as you go along that
>this key, when you get to the last page, does not stop reading when you get
>to the last screen. What it does instead is start reading that same last
>page over again. So, a preferd key, for me to use, that does the job
correc
>tly, as you are reading your messages, is the space bar key. When you are
>done, you can hit escape and arrow down to the next message in your inbox.
>Oh yeah, sometimes people leave their addresses or the URL to their home
>page. One easy way to get to this with Outlook express is by pressing tab
>and shift tab within that message body window, or by pressing insert + f7
to
>bring up a list like in IE. When you type your messages, in outlook
>express, it looks for those special characteriestics Like the @ sign in an
>e-mail address to give it a hiper text quality like with links in a web
>page. Well, that's all... If you need any more help, you can right to me
>at:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>or at school where I will be moving to soon:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Later,
>Carlosand Odi Magnet: black puppy!
>
>
>
>From: Debbie Scales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 4:29 PM
>Subject: Re: A Newbie/Outlook Express
>
>
>>Mitch,
>>Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I have figured out
how
>>to process my
>>inbox and read each message. The main problem I am still having though,
is
>>that when I hit enter and bring up the message, if I do insert numpad 2
(or
>>with my keyboard I can do insert, scroll
>>arrow down), when Jaws begins reading, it reads the same line to me
several
>>times before preceding to the next line. Someone mentioned that may be
>>because I have my fonts large and Jaws doesn't like large fonts. Any
other
>>ideas, or is there a different keystroke I should be using to get it to
>>start reading the message once I bring it up?
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>Debbie
>>
>>
>>
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