[access-uk] Re: Colours in MS Word

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:57:55 +0100

Hmmm! You've got black on white this time around, whereas last time it was definitely not, according to my computer. . . .. Hang on, different parts of the page are coming up differently and, oh, I think this may be a JAWS thing.

Let's ignore it till the sighted folk complain!  <Smile>

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Carol
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Colours in MS Word



Hi Carol,

Hmmm, it certainly is strange. I saved my Word document as an html file and in Internet Explorer it came (according to JAWS) with the colours I wanted - black on white, with some parts in red. But still in Word JAWS says black on black.

While writing this e-mail JAWS is alternating between reporting it as black on white and black on black. It doesn't depend on the lines or anything, it just literally sometimes is saying black on black and sometimes black on white for the same text.

I'm stumped.

Catherine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Colours in MS Word



Catherine,

I've been looking for an answer to your problem. Mine reads "Black on White". There is a check box in the Options, General section which is supposed to produce "blue on white".

Have you checked whether you're getting the right colours in other programmes, for example in email? You seem to be producing Black on Black from your message, where other messages I've received are not. This may mean changes in your video settings.

Hopefully someone can help further on Monday or I'll have another go if we can sort it together.

I'm off out now though so probably won't do too much email until after the weekend.

All the best.


-- Carol carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx




----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Colours in MS Word



Hi,

I'm a bit worried about what's happening in Word. When I press JAWS 5 to find out what colour the text is it keeps saying it's black on black.

I have a document at the moment, selected all text, went to the font dialog and set the colour to automatic but JAWS is still saying black on black.

I've recently been experimenting with different JAWS settings for reporting attributes and maybe have mucked something up, but I can't see what.

I'm just wondering - surely it's not right that Word would put the colour to black on black by default?

I've opened some other documents I recently created and JAWS is saying black on black too.

Perhaps I just didn't notice before that JAWS was saying black on black; perhaps it always says it, though (I assume) the background isn't actually black. For what it's worth the screen certainly isn't black, looks white or greyish to me, but I don't know whether that means anything...

So am just wondering - a) would Word put the colours to black on black if I selected all text, went into the font dialog, into the colour part and pressed enter on automatic? And b) can any JAWS users look at a document they created without fiddling with the colours and press JAWS 5 and see what JAWS says?

Catherine
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