Re: determining colors of text with JFW
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:49:47 -0700
Oh, I'm sorry. Not enough coffee. I think I conflated "five" with the
letter "f" in my haste because, well, they both begin withb an F. In fact,
that's all one of them is. We're talking mistakes at a really fundamental
level, here. Will hit self on head several times and wait until later in
the day to try replying helpfully to such questions.
Backing out, mortified....
onei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Kyle" <chuckk@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
hi,
Try insert + 5. It tells the foreground and background colors. hgh chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
> ah. that's exactly the kind of use these things are meant for. I hope
> someone chimes in soon with an answer better than my Insert F.
> ind
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:37 AM
> Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
>
>
> In my case, I work as a medical transcriptionist and am currently looking
> for employment. Some of the companies when they send corrected mistakes
> back that were made in the report put the corrections in a different color
> than the rest of the text to make it stand out.
>
> And as far as color changes on the internet that's not as vital but there
> are times when it will talk about something in a different colored text
and
> it would be nice to be able to know what is in that different color.
> Troy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
>
>
> Understood. I was only characterizing my own, plain vanilla use of Word
for
> writing and reading unembellished text documents, not cosmetically
enhanced
> for any purpose.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy Barlow HR Workforce Information & Analysis Officer"
> <Guy.Barlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:09 AM
> Subject: RE: determining colors of text with JFW
>
>
> The facility for JAWS to announce text colour formats as it reads is very
> useful. Some text documents contain words/sentences formatted in a
> different font colour to reinforce salient points to the sighted reader
> which are contained within the document.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yardbird [mailto:yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 September 2005 14:48
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
>
> I think what David is referring to is a way of setting Jaws to announce
> colors as it reads. I think there's a way to set that up (though I'd hate
> to have such a thing running constantly, as I use Word all day). However,
> in Word, I never heard of colors of text and background continually
> changing, by the way. A few special Word editing or correction functions
> use color to set themselves off, but actually I don't use such functions
> anyway. but you sound as if you do expect some color-coded things to be
in
> your Word documents? Again, an ordinary Word document doesn't just keep
> changing colors, word by word or line by line.cocuy
>
> But if you just want to know the colors at specific points of a document
or
> Web page, the command to hear this spoken is Insert F.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David & Patricia Ferrin" <dpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:59 AM
> Subject: Re: determining colors of text with JFW
>
>
> If memory serves me correctly there should be a scheme in the speech and
> sounds manager that will do that very thing. I think it's the proof
reading
> scheme.
> David Ferrin
> I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
> personal email address
> dpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Troy Burnham" <tburnham@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:52 AM
> Subject: determining colors of text with JFW
>
>
> Hi All,
> How can I determine what color certain text is written in, and is there a
> way to be notified if another color is encountered while reading? I'm
> talking specifically about documents that I open in MSWord, but at times I
> also need to know the color of the text on web pages as well.
>
> Thanks.
> Troy
>
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