hi, as bavesh said, its accessible with n v d a, and, there is some settinngs which you need to do before going to use outlook with screen readers the artical contains some settings, which might be help full read with pations
Outlook Express As far as combined mail and news readeres go, one can use the mail and news portions of Netscape Communicator 4.8 for readers not supporting Mozilla Thunder Bird. I'm using Communicator until Dolphin adds Thunderbird support and have found Communicator to be roughly equally accessible to Outlook Express with no need for OE Quote Fixing and better message coloring support. Back to OE, though: Simplifying the Layout The only additional view you really need in Outlook Express is the folder list, which allows you to easily move between different folders, servers and newsgroups. So, here's how you get ridd of all those other views. Go to the View/Layout dialog (logical, eh?) and make the following choices: list of 8 items • Contacts Off • Folder Bar Off (this is like an extra big title bar and not needed) • Folder List On (some guides suggest disabling this as well) • Outlook Bar Off (like the places bar in Win ME,XP,2k but with OE specific places) • Status Bar Off • Toolbar Off • Viewsbar Off • Show preview pane Off list end The Columns You Need In Outlook Express the window where all the messages of the currently selected folder are shown, I call it the message list, can be thought of as a kind of table implemented with a multi-column list view. In that table, each message corresponds to a row and each message atribute (subject,date,sender etc...) to a column. OE allows you to set the widths and the order of the columns as well as what columns are shown. Note that removing a specific message atribute or column (they are the same thing) not only hides that column but OE doesn't allow you to sort messages by a hidden column. Here's an example: if you disable the attachment column, you can no longer sort messages by attachment. To minimize the data you want your screen reader to read per message, you should decide what columns are vital and discard the others. In my opinion, the columns you need most often are subject and from in this order. So you should activate at least these two and maybe the attachment and date columns in sent items or news groups, too. list of 4 items • Go to View/Columns • Select the columns: labelled from and subject • Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to sort the columns to the order: Subject, From (from top to bottom). • The column order, in the columns dialog corresponds to the column order in the message view (from left to right). list end Finetuning Columns, Sorting Messages and other convenient Features First some notes. Some e-mail folders have there own column settings so you might want to change the settings for other folders than the Inbox . Note also that newsgroup servers or at least the newsgroup message view in general, have there own layout and column settings as well. To summarize a bit, it takes quite a bit of patience to set the columns you want in the right order for e-mail folders. And there are still some things you can do to make the columns easier to use with screen readers. One such thing is to set the widths of the columns right. You might need a sighted person for dragging the columns with the mouse to make there widths suitable. Alternatively you can set the column width parameter for each column in the column dialog by specifying a value in the The selected column should be (the value) pixels wide field. As for column widths, you should have a lot of room for long subject lines and for person's names as well but the date column doesn't need that much space. Specifying the column widths in pixels has it's draw backs. The columns are not scalable when you select another resolution or change the size of the Outlook Express window so some column tweaking later on might be necessary. Speaking of the Outlook Express main window, I think you should maximize the main window to have as much space for the columns as possible. And you can further increase the space available by dragging the divider between the folder list and the message view (be careful not to drag the border too much on the left as your newsgroup names might be clipped, then). Again this operation requires the sighted or magnification. It is also a good idea to sort the messages so that it's easy to find what you are looking for. Generally you should check the option View/Current View/Group Messages by Conversation . This way all the replies to a specific message will be grouped under that message and you can expand the message to view it's replies just like you would expand a branch in a standard Windows tree control. You can sort messages by any column you have selected. When viewing newsgroup messages I like to choose: list of 2 items • View/Sort By/Sent • View/Zort By/Sort Descending list end The latter option should be generally selected. It sorts the messages so that the newest messages are on the top or if you have sorted messages by subject, messages starting with the letter a will be at the top (actually parentheses will be before the letter a). It's easy to find the new messages in a news group just by accessing that group in the folder list and quicly pressing tab to move to the top most or newest message. OE will check the group for new messages after a while and these will appear above the message you just selected when OE has updated the list. When viewing e-mail messages it is a good idea to sort them by subject rather than by date as some mailing lists add prefixes to the subject lines e.g. (AH) (stands for Analog Heaven). By sorting the messages by subject, you'll be more easily able to view the messages posted to a specific mailing list. I've found seting up e-mail rules helps to keep the mails neatly and logically organized. You can create rules in Tools/Message Rules/Mail . I won't go into the details here as the process is pretty much self-explanatory. Just select the criteria in the first list, the action in the second one and activate any of the hyperlinks in the rule description to specify the details. I like to auto-archive messages from certain people, sort the e-mail list messages by topic based on posting address and subject line as well as sort all the messages having attachments into a common attachments folder. I've also found a manual archive folder can be very handy, I've got one for temporary and another one for permanent archival. You can also search for e-mail messages in any folder (e.g. Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items or any newsgroup). Usualy you should search by subject or with a keyword. The latter option is pretty slow if you have lots of messages and an old machine with little memory. That's mostly due to OE having no indexing service running similar to say Spotlight or Google Desktop search. Note that you don't have to always search the message text. You could, for example, have OE not to search the message text, in stead, type the name of the person who posted the message you are looking for in the find field. Generally speaking, if you don't tell OE to search the message body, it will search the visible message headers. At least in Windows XP Service Pack 2, Outlook Express includes a real physical cursor for browsing an e-mail without having to use screen reader specific navigation features. This means that you'll be able to move around a plain text message as if it was an edit field, as far as keyboard use goes. Making selections and copying text is also possible. To access this physical cursor in OE, open up a message and press tab. You should land on the message and have a real, visible cursor that you can use to navigate around. Alternatively, if you use the preview pane, tabbing to that pane should activate the cursor automatically. if you want to copy the message text real fast, the quickest way is to highlight the desired message in the mesage list and press ctrl+c. The message text as well as the most important headers will be copied on the clipboard and can then be pasted to any Windows application supporting plain text. Tools/Options The Tools/Options dialog contains various settings that affect the behavior of Outlook Express. In this chapter, I've listed the most relevant settings to accessibility: list of 4 items • In the Read tab you can set the fonts Outlook Express uses when displaying messages. To access the font settings, press the Fonts button. You can specify both a proportional font and a fixed width font. Generally you should pick fonts that are easy to read, I am using Arial Black as the proportional font and Courier New as the fixed-width font. You can also specify the font size. If you are using magnification set it so that the text is easy to read. But if you are not, you should set it to the smallest value available as by doing so you'll have more text without scrolling. • I've also found the setting titled Read all messages in plain text almost invaluable. It shows all e-mail in plain text thereby protecting you from some viruses and making the content generally more accessible and easier to read. This option has the drawback that if you receive an HTML message with no plain-text copy included, the message is totally empty. • On the Send tab you can specify the format of your messages. I really recommend choosing Plain Text for both newsgroup and mail messages as plain text messages are accessible with any e-mail client (also Unix based Pine, to give an example of a client not supporting HTML). Further more, HTML has unnecessary formatting,, most people posting in HTMl don't use the formatting anyway, and gif animations in HTML-messages tend to cause problems with screen readers. • In the Compose tab there are two font settings buttons (the first one for mail and the one below it for news). These buttons set the font that is used when you write your messages. Pick the fonts that are easy to read. Note that if you send your messages as plain text, the font settings you use to compose the message are not saved with the unformatting message being sent, they only determine which fonts your editor uses for display purposes. In other words, when a recipient opens your message, it is shown with the font settings specified in his or her e-mail client not with the settings you specified in the Compose tab. list end Tweaking Message Window Settings Here's how to optimize the appearance of the message window to improve accessibility. In this context the message windo is the window in which the actual message text is shown. One of the most important things in improving accessibility in the message window is to turn off all it's toolbars. So in a message window clear all of the following: list of 3 items • View/Tool Bars/Standard Buttons • View/Status Bar • And if you are replying to an HTML-message, also the option View/Tool Bars/Formatting bar list end Most screen reader and sighted users want to have as large a message window as possible. The ad hoc solution here would be to use the Windows' maximize command to do that but it won't work as the state of the message window (either maximized or restored) is not saved in Outlook Express. Fortunately, there's a workaround to this: the size of the windo is saved when restored. Just don't maximize the window and drag it manually to fill the whole screen. That's it. Composing Messages The built-in message viewer is not too good. First the response of the message editor is somewhat sluggish with screen readers and an older machine. There's also no way of quoting inserted text or jumping to a specific line. Besides, Outlook Express stil has bugs in quoting messages when word wrap is turned on. In addition, the signature is inserted at the top of the message encouraging you to top post rather than bottom post, the latter being preferred in most newsgroups apart from those for the VI folks. OE also uses a 3 line header before the actual quoted post begins which can be irritating when reading e-mail with speech. So two programs come in very handy a good text editor and an application for fixing Outlook's e-mail quoting. As for text editing, I truely recommend NoteTab Pro. It's a multi-tab text editor with unlimited undo, HTML and e-mail quoting features, thesaurus, spell-checker, text statistics, macro language, support for Perl scripts and dozens of other things like Perl compliant regular expressions. The basic version of NoteTab is free and it does most of the things you'd want. I'm by the way a registered owner of NoteTab Pro, I'm doing all my e-mails as well as these web-pages with it. The registration costs about twenty euros and it can be made electronically as well. You can learn more about NoteTab at http://www.notetab.com . When it comes to fixing quoting mistakes, moving the signature to the bottom and simplifying quoting in general. OE-QuoteFix is to app to have. I use this app daily. It starts when OE does and remains hiddne in the system tray. Normally you don't have to interact with the application at all. It closes it self when you finnish using Outlook Express and it formats the messages to which you are replying on the fly. You can get OE-QuoteFix here. Be sure to configure it properly, too. In particular, make certain the message wrapping widths are the same for OE's mail and news settings and OE Quote Fix. These widths, sadly, differ by default. Here are some tricks you can do in NoteTab Light or any other text editor supporting regular expressions. Most of these tricks should be done after having copied the message body to a text editor (NoteTab even supports capturing clipboard copy events). One of the options I use loads is finding the next unquoted line in an e-mail message. This method works best if you get a copy of someone else's unquoted message which you do by hitting ctrl and c in the message list. Use the find command and the regular expression ^[^>] to find the next unquoted line. Note that you may have to substitute the greater than sign with some other quote character, in some instances. Alternatively, to remove all quoted lines from a message before replying to it in NoteTab: Copy and paste the message to which you wish to reply to NoteTab. Open the replace dialog box, set the scope to all and tick the regular expression box, then type the following: find: ^>.*$ Replace with: [leave this field empty] After executing this command, the quoted parts should be gone but the problem is the large amount of empty lines. Do the following find and replace to remedy this (uncheck the regular expression box first, though): Find: ^p^p Replace with: [again leave this field empty] Finally, use the e-mail quote command in NoteTab to quote the message, reply to it and copy and paste to Outlook Express when done. Alternatively, you can quote with a regular expression like this: Find: ^{.*}$ Replace With: >\1 In most regular expression compliant editors you should substitute the braces with parentheses. However, the NoteTab 4.x syntax uses curly braces to denote capturing groups. The 5.x releases of NoteTab do use parentheses in stead of braces, for capturing, however. On 18/05/2015, raaju <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know about NVDA, but jaws is fully accessible with ms outlook 2007. > I'm also using outlook 2007 for my mail purposes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of nitesh gupta > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 7:34 PM > To: accessindia > Subject: [AI] Office-7 is not accessible for blind regarding mail. > > Hi friends, > > I am facing a grate problem recently I have got a new system for my > office work I have installed both NVDA and JAWS-14. In that system > office-7 is installed The problem is that I am not able to explore > mail of branch. as no headings comes with H nor X works. > Earlier when I was using XP with office-3 office mails were entirely > accessible. One of my blind friend told that this is due to office-7 > He has suggested to downgrade MS office to office-3 or arrange > office-13. > Office-13 is impossible to get therefore I am thinking downgrade. > > Friends tell is there any solution of my problem? Experts Please > provide your mobile no. with solution. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Skype: nitesh.gupta185 > Personal Email:[email protected] > "good person is not one who thinks good but he is one who does good. > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind > ia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > -- jammed and internet hanged? Reach me through the following means: mobile: +91 7795927572 whats app: +91 9945860671 skype: Shankar.a email: [email protected] Thanks and regards Shankar *****technical consultant***** Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
