Re: "Ghost" Attachments Revisited
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:28:54 -0700
Hi,
I don't know the most concise way to explain the ghost attachment issue, but
someone else will explain, I hope. Meantime, it may be useful to
distinguish between Jaws and other applications here, in both instances.
Jaws is only speaking what you'd see, in your Inbox. You'd see a symbol
denoting an attachment, only to open the message, look for the attachment,
and find that there wasn't any. Jaws isn't the agent of this
misinformation.
Also, Jaws wouldn't be changing or disrupting anything in your mailing list
deliveries in any way. Jaws doesn't act upon other programs, in this sense.
So neither of these is a Jaws problem.
Hope that helps. I'll make a lame stab at explaining the phantom
attachment thing. On many emails these days, there appear right in the
message area things such as blurbs saying that the AVG antivirus program has
certified the message to be clean, and to a Jaws user or a sighted person, I
think, these messages appear right within the message area as if they were
much like our email signatures.But for some reason, some mail programs
recognize them as attachments, and either announce their presence, as in
Outlook Express, or file them in a special catch-place, as I understand
Eudora does. But it's just a mistake, or a quirk. Which doesn't mean you
shouldn't check to see if there's an attachment, because if there were,
you'd want to know whether it was something you actually wanted, and wanted
to open, or something suspicious you'd prefer to delete.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mitchell" <mitch44@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: "Ghost" Attachments Revisited
Hi, Can someone remind me again why JAWS announces attachments on certain E
mails when no such actual attachments exist?
Also, certain daily e mails from various lists have stopped coming to my In
Box and perhaps some JAWS setting or other is causing this interference but
I don't know the fix as no settings, to my knowledge, have been changed.
Any ideas welcome at
mitch44@xxxxxxxxx
Enjoy your weekend! Mitch
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