it says the person's name and then ...? to me it sounds like you're not in the window when it does it. it could be that you have JAWS set to say highlighted text, as I do. it seemed to not say the name like that with JAWS 7.0 but it started with 7.1, and it's because of the highlighted text. if you do insert-s and toggle your text to none (it will say all, highlighted and none it should work.) Patricia msn: bc_sarah_fan@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: John Ramsey To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:00 PM Subject: RE: Windows Live messenger? Hello Jeremy, I downloaded the latest version of MSN messenger and it doesn't do that to me (thank God). I wish I could be of more help. Take care, John -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smiling? Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:48 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Windows Live messenger? Hello, I was wondering if any of you use Windows Live messenger 8, and might know how to stop it from continually saying the persons name who has sent you a messege, without having to actually go to that particular window itself to stop it? I have the window maximised and I also checked the verbosity settings to see if there might be something that could be changed but, I myself, didn't see anything that would apply. I am using Jaws 8 and I didn't have these troubles with 7. I do certainly thank any of you who might be able to help me with this irritating ordeal. Jeremy