Re: Running Word maxe for the sake of jaws?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:51:40 -0700
P.S.
I mixed apples and oranges, I'm afraid. Let me clarify. you don't need to
do anything special with Word but have it open normal size when it launches.
And, like word, Outlook Express also opens full screen, in other words, in
Normal size, when you launch it. What I was referring to wasn't Outlook
Express itself, but an OE message which, when first clicked open, is a
smallish window with most of the OE interface, Inbox, and Folders (if that's
your default view, as it is mine) visible around . This can confound Jaws
when composing, although not when either reading or spell checking. In any
case, I always press alt spacebar x when I begin composing a new message, or
open incoming one, just to give Jaws room to breathe. But that isn't
identical with the Outlook Express interface itself, which already fills the
screen (the message opens on top of it).
Hope that's more clear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: Running Word maxe for the sake of jaws?
I know this is a standard recommendation, but I have yet to figure out why.
If you click on Properties when focused on your Word icon on the Desktop or
its equivalent on the Start Menu, you'll find if you tab down a few times an
option for determining whether the application will run in normal or
maximized mode when launched. I'm aware that if you were to shrink a Word
window, somehow, Jaws might get confused and disoriented. But it's worth
noting that if this option is set just to Normal, as is the default in Word
and many other applications, the screen is completely filled with the Word
interface and the document, and in my experience with Word and Jaws since
Jaws 3.7, this works just fine.
This is not the same as saying that you shouldn't maximize something like an
Outlook Express message when you're reading or creating one. That, you
should do, to give Jaws a fighting chance. But the Word screen is already
just fine as it is.
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