Years ago when I had my first copy of Jaws 6 whilst I was working I was told that my use of the High Contrast white on Black scheme would cause unpredictability and errors in my use of Jaws and that I should use the default Windows Colour scheme instead.
As then I had some vision I was unhappy about losing this high contrast. The response from the Access Company supporting me was to design a custom colour scheme which Jaws could work properly with. Essentially this involved removing every instance of the black colour and replacing it with dark blue. To my eyesight at the time I could not really tell the difference but Jaws definitely worked better and spent less time for example reading out elements twice. Whilst they were about it I asked them to remove all the purple elements of the scheme and replace it with red which also make the vision slightly better for me. I no longer even turn the monitor on so I no longer bother with all this but the custom scheme did help me for a while. I may have it on a backup drive somewhere if you want me to sendspace it to see if it will help. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: 26 May 2014 20:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Very strange problem with JFW 15 and Outlook Express I have an old computer here running Windows XP Pro. I know, it's not getting security updates anymore, nor is supported any longer by Microsoft. I totally get it. I'm A+ certified, so trust me, I'm totally aware of that. I can't really upgrade it though as the hardware's too old. That's beside the point though. I have some usable vision. Not enough to read the screen, but I do like seeing when certain things pop up on the screen etc. For me however, the normal color scheme is terrible. You'll know in a second how this relates to O E, so just stick with me on this. I like using the high contrast dark scheme. This way, it's basically a high contrast with white windows and text, on a dark solid black background. The problem is, I'm having this really really weird issue where no matter what folder I'm in of my Outlook Express, If I up and down arrow through the list of my mail, or for that mind, hit my jaws key+numpad 8 to read the current line, or in this case, to read the currently focussed e-mail, I hear that the message is unread. It tells me this even after I've opened and read the message. I totally get that there is a setting in options of O E to specify how long the message must be opened before it turns the flag to read, but that isn't the problem here, trust me. When I am set on the Windows Standard color scheme, this problem doesn't exist. It's only happening with the high contrast dark themes. I've tried it with both of them, and both have the issue. This is occurring both when the main O E window is maximized, as well as when it's not maximized. I'm not showing my preview payne, although, just for a test, I did turn it on temporarily, and that didn't fix the problem. The other thing that is weird as all get out is, if I have no messages in my currently selected folder, yet, I hit jaws key+num pad 8, even though no message is selected, as there are none there to start with, it still reports unread. Granted, it doesn't read any message, but, it still says unread, whereas with just the normal Windows standard scheme loaded, it doesn't say anything. Before you all ask, yes. Jaws key+tab is producing the exact same results in all above senarios. I suspect that this has something to do with a custom highlight color which jfw uses to detect the flags of read vs. unread, but I'd not know to save my life where to even begin to confirm this, nor to tweek it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If we have any script writers on this list who could tell me step by step where to go, and what to change in my Outlook Express jss file or where ever to fix this, that would be great! I'm not scared to modify script files, as long as you tell me step by step exactly down to a T what to do. Thank you. Chris. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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