Re: Jaws 8 sometimes not speaking message move in Outlook express
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:54:10 -0800
Robert,
One question before I try making this adjustment. Are you fairly confident
that doing this won't adversely affect Jaw's performance in any other
context, away from Outlook Express? I wouldn't want to screw things up by
accident.
Also, if you're able to explain this without too much work, in what sense
does "cursor" have to do with this issue? This may be a technically naive
question, but where I'm coming from is the only kind of cursor I know to
call by that name is what I used to see as the little highlight at the
character or space I was at in, say, Word, while editing in a document. I
suppose this isn't the more technical definition of a cursor, at least for
the purposes of Jaws-related things? But what does it refer to, then?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws 8 sometimes not speaking message move in Outlook express
I was having a slight problem in this area similar to the one here and I did
the following:
In cursor options in the jaws configuration manager I changed my vertical
carrot dimensions from 4 to 6.
The default is 4 as Jaws will not recognize a vertical dimension less than
4.
I noted that the o/e problem worked fine when read with Jaws version 5 which
had a vertical carrot dimension of 6 and when I changed my Jaws 8 settings
to 6, the problem resolved.
Note: This is not a prior issue I requested help for re opening links from
within an open message in O/E 7. That issue did, in fact, turn out to be a
McAfee security settings issue.
So, to change the vertical carrot dimension from 4 to 6, do the following:
1. Jaws configuration manager: (Insert 6)
2. Alt s for the set options menu.
3. arrow down to cursor options.
4. On cursor options tab over to vertical carrot dimension--the value will
likely be on 4.
5. Try changing this value to 6, alt F-4 out of this menu. Say "yes" to save
your settings and you're done.
If this minor fix doesn't resolve your problem, simply put it back to 4 or
whatever it had been.
There seems to be so many minor tweeks that can affect how Jaws performs.
Write down any settings changes you make so you can easily restore them if
the change proves not to resolve your problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: Jaws 8 sometimes not speaking message move in Outlook express
I often use the control shift v command to move a message from one folder to
the other in Outlook Express. In my copy of Jaws 7, jaws would report my
keystrokes and then speak the move dialogue, then speak as I navigated my OE
folders until I got to the one where I wanted to move the message and
pressed Enter.
Now, in my new Jaws 8+ (it's the one that's on the site currently for
download), very often Jaws will say nothing at all when I do this, even
though because I'm experienced, I figured out how to check and get jaws to
tell me where I'd wound up, and that the task was actuallyu in progress. A
new Jaws user wouldn't think of this, though, so that's not very good.
They'd just think their keystrokes hadn't taken.
NowIf I hit Escape to cancel the task, and then start again, Jaws will
usually behave normally the next time. But it happens often enough so that
it's a pain. I'm sure in this case that there's nothing I could change in
the way of settings. I just want to know, is this happening to a lot of
people, also? For what it may matter, I'm using OE 6 under Win XP Home SP2,
with the standard Windows display and nothing problematic in the way of any
other settings or video stuff.
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