I wish I knew the answer to that questions as well. I’ve gotten used to
Control+Y, but the other way was quite nice. I feel like Outlook is such a
bloated program, and often experience the slowness you mentioned. I’ve thought
about switching to NVDA with Thunderbird. However, I’ve been using Outlook
Express, and then Outlook for enough years, that the keyboard commands would
feel awkward. Heck! I still miss PINE. (smile)
Lisa
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Hi, Kurt.
Yes, the ctrl-Y hotkey does work with the later version of Outlook and I don't
mind using it if this is the only method for accessing other email folders.
However, with older versions of Outlook, as well as Thunderbird, the folder
list could be accessed by pressing shift-tab from the message list and I'm just
curious as to why this is no longer happening.
On 12/8/2018 11:12 PM, Kurt Miller wrote:
David,
For your first question about the folder treeview; try control plus y and see
if that helps you. This is how I do it. I am using 2010 though so it may be
different, but I believe it is the same.
Kurt
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Hello. To provide some context I'm using JAWS 2019 on a Windows 10 Pro machine,
64-bit, with 8 gigs of RAM. According to the System Information app the
processor is AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5400B, 2800 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2
Logical Processor(s)
I admit this isn't the fastest machine out there but it's served me well for
many years.
I've recently begun using JAWS 2019. I've been a Thunderbird user for about
nine years and, in general, it works well on this machine. However, JAWS has
just enough issues with it that I considered switching to Outlook. First, I
sometimes hear "not selected" as I delete messages and focus moves to the next
message. I also find it very annoying that it places the subject of the message
on the first line of the message, just as it does when placing the title text
on the first line of a Web page. At other times, navigating the list of folders
does not report the folder name which has focus, although this issue is
intermittent. The "not selected" announcement is also intermittent. Basically,
the Thunderbird scripts really need to be updated.
My version of Outlook is 2016 via Office 365.
Anyway, after trying Outlook 2016 I have the following questions and
observations.
1. Where is the folder tree view that I'm used to with older versions of
Outlook? From the message list I thought it would gain focus if I press
shift-tab but this does not happen. I have enabled it in View settings unless
there is something that I've missed.
2. It's probably my machine but performance when opening a message is very
slow. I have ensured that preview pane and message reading pane are disabled.
While I have message reading set to automatic in Quick Settings it sometimes
just reads the sender's name, followed by "button" whenever I open a message. I
believe I may have fixed this by setting the reading to not use the virtual
cursor for read-only messages, as this has slightly improved the performance
but I am wondering if others have experienced this. While I do not intend to
start a JAWS vs NVDA battle I will say that the performance with NVDA and
Outlook is somewhat better than what I'm seeing with JAWS.
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