Re: jaws not reading to the bottom of a message.
- From: "jim" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:00:59 -0800
you are absolutely right about the text size,and I have gone back to setting
it to medium size,because lots of my correspondence goes to sighted folks.
Thanks for the reminder. Smile.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: jaws not reading to the bottom of a message.
> Do you have any idea why these adjustments are supposed to make it easier
> for Jaws to perform accurately? I've gone through periods of using a more
> conventional range of settings, including using HTML for all outgoing mail
> except for that going to blind mailing lists and low vision or blind
> correspondents, enlarging and reducing the font size both in plain text
> and
> HTML, and none of these variations have had any effect on how my Jaws
> behaves. One thing I especially want to mention is that if a person has
> sighted correspondents, it really isn't very nice to deliberately give
> them
> the tiniest email font size to squint at. For a younger person this is
> just
> annoying, and for most people over around 40 or so it's downright
> malicious.
> Just speaking in favor of being considerate where possible. But if Jaws
> won't work for you otherwise, I suppose you have to do whatever's
> necessary.
> But none of that really ought to be necessary in the first place. The
> program's simply supposed to work with normal settings of all sorts.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jim" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:27 PM
> Subject: jaws not reading to the bottom of a message.
>
>
> Hi all,
> I phoned FS today, and Dennis had an interesting fix for this problem for
> those of us who have it. He told me to go the read tab in options and make
> sure the box is checked that says read messages in plain text only. I did
> that. and now I have to hear that annoying read edit thing. Then he said
> go
> to the send tab in options of OE and check the box that says send all
> messages in plain text, and if that didn't solve it, to uncheck the box in
> send tab to see if that solved it.
> One thing I did, was to go to text size and make sure my text size was set
> to smallest. That seemed to help. I'm not complaining about FS, just
> passing
> on what they said to do to fix the problem that many of us have had. I
> would
> encourage you to make sure your text size is set to smallest. Me, the non
> expert is just passing that along. Smile.
> Jim in Covina
>
>
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