Re: OE Silences

Yardbird,
Not arguing, just explaining my experience as you did yours. Fear not, my doctors are not warning me, thankfully, about either blood pressure or cholesterol. I use the words "decisions" because, as a manager in a large organization, I learned that every step is a decision, and each decision takes time, whether a millisecond or weeks. Your preferred process involves an extra step. It may be that this latest JAWS upgrade will force me to add a decision to my email processing, but I wish it didn't. I do note your added information here that you automatically maximize the window on opening a new message. I can see how that cuts out JAWS's default reading of the headings, which I may also find useful. 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Adrian,
Please, I think you're dramatically overestimating how troublesome it may be to handle email as I do. Time constraints? What kind of time constraints? How rushed are you, anyway? I don't understand that. Big decisions to make? I don't get that, either. As for having to wait for something, no, I don't have to sit like a passive dummy and listen to Jaws read the headers. Once 
I've heard the message listed on the inbox list and chosen to press enter,
I've heard who sent it and the subject line, so when I click on it, I just
maximize the window with alt spacebar x and press control home and say all and let 'er rip. Now, that takes all of about a second and a half , for goodness' sake, not to offend the more prim among us. I don't see what there is to make an argument about. if all that's too much to handle in a busy day, I hope you're keeping up with things and not letting your blood pressure and cholesterol beer too much into the danger zone under all that pressure. :-) 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your response, Vicky. I must have missed your earlier message. I just now went through a series of list messages and found that waiting for that amount of time does allow speech to return. But, as I'm sure you'd agree, that time mounts up.
To respond to another suggestion, Yardbird's method has two drawbacks, if time is a consideration. First, to escape out of a message is one decision, then what to do with it another. Also, when you click on a message, you have to wait a moment to suffer through all the headings. Before this 8.0.2107 upgrade, I'd press control to silence JAWS, then start reading the contents of the next message. On an active list such as this one, skipping through messages in this fashion, either deleting or saving from within the message field, cumulatively saves time. 
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