Re: Two lazy questions
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:43:30 -0600
Lenny
Like I've said before, if this person you're working with is a relatively
new computer user, you guys really are bettter off just using a regular
e-mail program like Outlook for example. Things are more straight forward
and more easily defined and understandable with an e-mail program. Because
you're sighted, what you see is what you get. But sometimes a screenreader
reads things that aren't seen by the user because they might be imbeded in
the website, or links may not be labeled properly. It is much easier and a
lot faster to send, receive and reply to mail and set up an addressbook
with Outlook or Eudora rather than having to do all kinds of extra
commands. Yahoo is like any other service with a screenreader, thesubject
of the e-mail is a link and after clicking on it, you have to get past all
the stuff at the top of the page to read the message. You then have to find
a reply link, then find the appropriate edit box and type in your message
and click send. Lots to do there. With a regular program, you open the
message and it's read to you automatically. You press control plus r to
reply, type your message and then hit the appropriate hotkey for the
program you're using, with Outlook it's control plus s. So as you can see,
a regular program is much much easier and faster for a visually impaired
person.
At 04:54 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote:
>At 11:09 PM 11/21/2004, you wrote:
> >I have a yahoo email address. How would I use it to deliver messages to my
> >Outlook Express 6 ? Does yahoo have the 100 messages limit like Hotmail? I
> >am using JFW 4.51.
>I would just forward the message to the address I use with Outlook
>Express. I don't know if there is a limit. However I do a lot of mailings
>for an organization and often get bounced mail from hot mail because the
>mailbox is full. Never got such a message from a yahoo address.
>However that I am sighted, I can do this easily by clicking on the
>appropriate boxes or icons with my mouse.
>
>In the meantime I am throwing my own "lazy questions" back at you. I am
>trying to show a blind person using JFW to read her yahoo mail. I set up a
>yahoo account for her and she can get to the inbox by going using insert-F7
>to the inbox link. What is the next step? How can she read her mail,
>reply to it and compose new mail. I would also like to know how to set up
>her address book. Is there any manual or help menu for using Yahoo with
>JFW. We are using JFW 5.0.
>
>Lenny
>
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