If anyone else is interested, an off-list suggestion solved this problem. Again, although I've never had any difficulty clicking on links in Outlook Express, I had some with several links when I recently switched to Outlook 2003. This list member suggested I place focus on the second letter of the link, such as the first "t" in "http..." It works. I've since experimented by placing focus near the end of the link, which also produces the desired result. So it's a question of getting focus right within the link. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Spratt Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 7:32 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Link Problems Someone off-list suggested I pose this question here. I haven't done so before now because I figured it probably isn't a JAWS question, but perhaps it is. I can find no answers online, and my tech consultant has never seen it before. Using Outlook 2003, I cannot get certain links to work in some emails. I've found no consistency. I think most, if not all, the examples are links that begin either http or www, but sometimes links of this kind work. I never had this problem with OE, which I used until a week ago. I experimented with OE earlier today, and determined the problem still doesn't exist there. So it isn't a file association issue, as one webpage suggested, nor is it an antivirus block, as I'd speculated. Sources of email giving me this problem include Bank of America and Amazon. If their messages say something like "for such-and-such, click here," I can do it. However, if it is an http link, even though JAWS verbalizes "link," I get a very stern beep saying, in effect, "tough." I do not have this problem with emails from the NY Times, Schwab and other sources. In the course of going through Outlook 2003's tools and view menus, I've unchecked "plain text" and set my outgoing mail to HTML. Any ideas? -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx