Hi, Jill. Which version of JAWS do you have? I have Outlook Express, and it works for me with the message open, so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for you. Take care. Julie Morales To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need to be in their lives today. -- Unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Journey Mann, by Kent Ira Groff Julie, I have Jaws and am using Outlook Express. Using the keys you suggested, nothing happened either with the message opened or closed. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? My operating system is windows XP Home. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Morales" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Journey Mann, by Kent Ira Groff > JAWS also has some built-in hot keys to read these fields, although I > hardly > ever use them. They're there, though. Alt-1 will read you the From field, > Alt-2 will read you the date, Alt-3 will read you the To field, Alt-4 will > read you the CC field, Alt-5 the BCC, and Alt-6 will read you the subject > field. If you push these keystrokes twice in quick succession, it'll > actually move your cursor to those fields. Take care. > Julie Morales > To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you need to be in their lives > today. -- Unknown > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:54 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Journey Mann, by Kent Ira Groff > > > Elizabeth > > My suggestion which follows may be very dependent on which screen reader > and mail program happens to use. > I have set up in Window-Eyes hot keys which read to me the lines such > things as the "from:" and "subject" and "date" lines of msgs. > That way, if I happen to be in a msg and have no idea what the subject is, > who the poster is, whether the msg is current or from Thanksgiving day, I > can quickly hit the hotkey for that line, be told the info, and not lose > where I happen to be within the text. > Having done this, I am saved a lot of frustration (and time, I suppose). > Subject lines tend to be on 1 of 2 lines so I have a couple of hot keys > for that. > Dependent on which list I happen to be on, I know which one will likely > give me the info first. > If I am wrong, which I certainly can be, I have the other hotkey to then > try. > > > 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. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/195 - Release Date: 12/8/2005 > > 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.