It's not just with JAWS 6, though. I have 4.51, and when I have it set to read messages in plain text, it has that annoying focus problem, and I hate it. Take care. Julie Morales To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need to be in their lives today. -- Unknown mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:55 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Attention Christie Gillson It might be a good idea to set your mail program to send messages in plain text instead of HTML. That is a simple way to avoid text size and color problems when you copy stuff in to messages. HTML messages are really for those E-mail cards and newsletters and stuff like that. Since you don't need your E-mail to be a specific color and certainly aren't going to be sending pictures in your messages it makes sense to use plain text. In Outlook Express the setting for changing this is under tools, options, send tab. There are radeo buttons to choose between plain text and HTML. JAWS isn't very helpful because there is more than one set of these buttons but it doesn't say which is for E-mail. I assume the other set is for posting to newsgroups, which I've never done with Outlook. You can select the same options for both and not worry about which is which. :-) I would think the same options would be available in a very similar place for the other E-mail programs that actually support HTML messages. I just went back to only reading messages in plain text which avoids listening to JAWS blabber how many links a message has, which is a real waste of time. Addresses that people write in messages still turn in to links without having HTML on. Only those click here links disappear, which is just fine with me. :-) If I actually need to read a message in HTML I get an attachment that will display the message in HTML when opened in Outlook. That setting must be on the read tab. I think JAWS 6 had a strange bug, at least with my computer, that made it have focus problems when read messages in plain text only was checked. The problem seems to be better now. Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ----- Original Message ----- From: "Silvara" <silvara@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Attention Christie Gillson Oops. I copied the title from K1000 and the default color is white. I tried to play with the font but forgot about the color. Jaws reads it and so I thought it was ok. The title of the book is What What Psychotherapists Should Know About Disability by Rhoda Olkin It looks like there 2 pages missing, but they could be illustrations and so I am hoping Christie will reply. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for letting me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: Natasha To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Attention Christie Gillson Cindy, I think the text ended up being white as i can't see any text when i turn my screen magnifier on, but when i read with my screen reader like i usually do, i can read the test of her message just fine. *smile* Yes color rarely matters with screen readers and most of the time those of us that use them don't know what color the text is unless we make a point to check. *smile* just thought I'd drop a bit of education in there for you. Natasha & Fossey guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxx "Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, Point where you are going, But where they suddenly vanish, Never dismiss the possibility of flight." ~Book of Night With Moon, ch. 11, V. 3 ~ as quoted in A Wizard Alone, by Diane Duane ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.9/185 - Release Date: 11/28/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.9/185 - Release Date: 11/28/2005 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.