Re: windows live messenger and when someone signs in
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:58:16 +0100
Peter, thanks for the great tip! I've since added nicknames to my
contacts who are currently online, and it works a treat! JAWS reads the
nicknames, instead of their own display names, in the contacts list. I
shall wait now and see if it will read them when they sign in. Thanks
again!
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:35:03 +0100, "Peter Holdstock"
<peterholdstock@xxxxxxx> said:
> In WLM you can give people nicknames. This is what I've done so that JAWS
> doesn't say there full name including emotions etc. Once you give them a
> nick name, JAWS will announce this when they sign in instead of the
> longer
> name.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: windows live messenger and when someone signs in
>
> >I have this all the time with WLM 8.1 and JAWS 8.0.423 demo, and it
> > doesn't bother me, as I often read the contacts list anyway to see who's
> > online etc, however it's nice to know when someone's just signed in,
> > even though it truncates them sometimes.
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:20:29 -0500, "Chris Skarstad"
> > <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >> Hi folks. I don't really know if this is a screenreader specific
> >> thing. But A while ago, when I upgraded to the latest and
> >> supposedly greatest version of Windows Live Messenger, one thing that
> >> really began to annoy me is that when someone signed in with a
> >> particularly long screen name, it got cut off. For example, if
> >> someone's name said something like, Toonhead, can't wait for the next
> >> harry potter book to come out! What happens is, it gets cut off, and
> >> you hear, Toonhead, can't wait for the... has just signed in.
> >>
> >> It didn't do this with older versions of WLM, so figuring that going
> >> back to an older version might fix the problem, that's what I did.
> >> But as you can probably guess, the problem still persists. Is this
> >> happening with anyone else using Windows Live Messenger, and if so,
> >> is there a setting that I can change so the entire screen name is
> >> read when someone signs in? When I hit the keystroke to hear the last
> >> person who signed in, the entire screen name is read out, but when
> >> they sign in, it isn't. So if anyone has any kind of idea what to do
> >> I would very very much appreciate it! I hate having to go to my
> >> contact list every time someone I want to talk to signs in with a
> >> different screen name just so I can tell what it is.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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