Hi Dan
See, that's the thing, you were 99.9% there, you almost had it! The
only thing you didn't do was hit the continue buttton and then
respond to the e-mail asking you to verify your address.
So unfortunately, you'll have to start over from the beginning and go
all the way through, not stopping in the middle. this process is
meant to be done all in one go.
Good luck.
Chris, thanks for the explicit directions. First of all, not to be defensive, but I'm not a newbie and I go all over the web to do research, buy things, read various newspapers, and a bunch of other stuff. But I happened to find this particular registration routine frustrating.
Second, believe it or not, I actually got through most of the steps you enumerate below, and yet wasn't able to quite finish the process. I don't mean I couldn't get past the security thing, for instance. In fact, when the first reading of the characters in the graphic started too quickly so that Jaws drowned out the beginning while it notified me that I'd pressed Enter on the audio play button, I tried another time and got a set of characters that the voice began reading a split second later, long enough to give Jaws a chance to shut up.
Anyway, it's late, and I'm tired, but I'll follow whatever directions you've included for the last steps and see if I can finish this. Although I'm sort of afraid that my registration worked, except I don't know whether to sign in now or what. I don't want to begin the registration process all over again for nothing.
I'll try to finish this soon and let you know howI do.
thanks, Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: Re: can't get started with Windows Messenger
Hi Dan This is actually quite easy, relax my man, this is a piece of cake.
As you surf the web, you'll begin to find out that web pages aren't always set up in what we consider to be logical. in other words, we do have to search a bit. what you are going to be looking for is text, so you'll want to arrow down until you hear the words "create credentials", notice that you will hit a link that goes back to the home page. Forget that that link even exists, don't even concern yourself with it. From now on that link isn't even there. Ok, so after you hear create credentials, enter your e-mail address and password, just as you did before, along with your secret question and answer. Make sure that these are both good and that your secret answer is more than 5 characters like the page says. Now we're up to the audio portion. listen to the audio and fill in the characters just as you did before. But now, do not go back up to the top, just arrow down a little bit more and you'll find a continue button. if you get lost, simply hit your b key and you'll find it. press enter on that. On the next page, after arrowing down a bit of course, don't click any links to go back to the home page now! You'll be asked to confirm that all this information is correct, and you'll most likely be asked to confirm it, I haven't filled out this form in a while. But after you confirm this info, you should be sent an e-mail to the address you provided asking you to verify youre-mail address. After you receive another e-mail saying that your address is in fact verified, you can then sign in to windows messenger and set it up with a screen name and such. Once you sign in you won't have any contacts. You can add these later. You'll first need to go to alt plus t for tools, o for options. on the first tab you'll be asked to type in your name as you'd like others to see it. this can be your name, a nickname, anything. then go through the other options and set things up as you'd like them to be. make sure to visit the privacy tab andmake sure you have that set up as well, because if you leave things at their default state, you can be seen by anyone, and you might only like to have people who are added to your contact list to send you messages. That's how i have mine set up, but everybody's different so set it up like you'd like it. then press ok and then you can start adding contacts. just go through the menus and the process is very simple.
Hope this helps.
At 02:31 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: >Chris, >I took a break from the registration process at the point where I was >supposed to accept the user agreements. The reason I didn't proceed right >then was because I was a little burned out from wrestling with the audio >verification stuff, and I didn't understand why the first thing on the page >was a link for returning to some home page. They don't immediately say >what >you are supposed to do on each page (for instance, an error in filling out >something shows up right at that point in the form, but there's no title >like Error, Try Again at the top of the page, so a screen reader person has >to hunt for the problem, if there is indeed a problemwatchful and , and I >can't always infer what's the next thing to do. > >So I cycled around to Outlook express and looked at my email for a few >minutes. Now, I came back, input my email address in an edit box beneath >where the page displayed my email address (I have no idea what that was >about), and clicked the I agree button. > >But what happened? Did I get a page saying Congratulations and welcome, >and >here's how to use this service? No. What I found myself on was the very >"set up your credentials" page where I'd started, as if the whole >transaction had been cancelled and now I had to begin all over again. But >without their having the grace to actually tell me so. I searched up and >down the page to see if it said something like "timed out, dummy. Start >over." But there was no message of any kind, just the original invitation >to enter an email address, a password, a secret question and answer, and >then the verification graphic again. > >What's up with this? I'm not moving off that page now. If I'm just >supposed to click (return to page x" or something, please tell me. >Otherwise it looks as if the thing timed out while I was supposed to have >been reading the agreements online or printing them and reading them,and >that doesn't sound likely. Why wouldn't it wait a while on that page? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:58 AM >Subject: Re: can't get started with Windows Messenger > > >Dan, what you need to do is to go into your insert plus f11 system >tray icon dialogue, and look for an icon that says, windows >messenger not signed in. >If you don't see the icon, then the program is closed so you'll need >to go to your start menu, programs, and keep pressing w til you hear >windows messenger and then press enter on that. > >However, if you find the icon in your system tray, >press enter and a context menu will come up. press enter on the open >option. > >Next, go to your file menu and press enter on the option that says, >sign in as... and you'll then get a dialogue asking you for your .net >messenger passport address, if you have one. Simply type in the >e-mail address and password associated with your passport and you can >then sign in. If you don't have a passport account, you can press >shift plus tab in that dialogue a couple times and you'll find a link >that sas, get a .net passport. press enter on that, and you can then >sign up for one. you will have to eventually get to the word >verification, but with luck you can get past that and you can then >verify your e-mail address. you'll receive an e-mail that says that >you need to click on a link that verifys your address. so when you >sign in, you'll need to pick a screen name for yourself, possibly >yardbird? You can pretty much choose anything you like, so go ahead >and do that. you should then be all signed in, and if you know >someone else who uses msn/windows messenger, you can start adding >people to your contact list and when they see you've requested to >add them, they'll add you back. You can then start a chat with tem by >pressing enter on their screen name in the list of contacts. Hope >this is helpful. > > > > >At 07:33 AM 3/8/2006, you wrote: > >I'm using current version Jaws 7, and the copy of Windows Messenger that > >was > >on this Dell when I bought it a year ago. I can't launch the program, > >apparently, so I can't check for its version number. Sorry. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "curmudgeon" <one2three4five6@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:05 AM > >Subject: Re: can't get started with Windows Messenger > > > > > >which version of jaws and msn messenger are you using?? > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:59 PM > >Subject: can't get started with Windows Messenger > > > > > >I'm not able to begin learning to use this with Jaws. I click on the > >program icon to launch it. Then I get something that tells me it's the > >log > >on window and asks me to sign in. But I don't hear "edit" or anything, > >and > >I can't tab around or find any more of a dialogue. So I just hit Enter > >(actually, that didn't do anything so I did that route to Jaws cursor > >thing > >that sometimes behaves like a left mouse click, and the log on window > >disappeared and the system tray came up, with the message Windows > >Messenger > >Not Signed In. I pressed Enter on that, and got presented once again > >with > >that inscrutable log on window. > > > >What's happening? 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