David, Here are three suggestions:
1. Reading the day is upset by having the TaskPad on the screen, so make sure it is turned off - it's in the View menu. 2. On some PCs, the following change to a Windows setting allows JAWS to read the day. Open the Start Menu, go into the Settings submenu and choose Control Panel. Press R to jump to "Regional and Language Options", and press Enter to open a dialogue. Tab to a "Standard and formats Customize" button and press Enter to open a further dialogue box. Control + Tab to the Date page, and then Tab to the Long date format and change it to: <dddd, dd MMMM yyyy> Both the number of characters and their case are important in the format, so make sure it's right! Once you have typed this in, you can Tab to the OK button and press it, then Tab to another OK button and press it, and then close the Control Panel. You might need to stop and start Outlook before the change takes effect. Now when you move from day to day with LeftArrow and RightArrow, JAWS should give you the day name as well as the date. Beware that this change can cause JAWS' behaviour in reading out day and date information to deteriorate even further, so you may have to undo the setting change to get it back. 3. Remember that when you press Control + G, it gives the first three letters of the day along with the date of the current day. So for your example, you could go to the calendar, press Control + G and type in 11/2/08 Enter to jump to the day you're interested in, then press Control + G again to get the day information and press Escape to get rid of the dialogue once you have it. Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: 12 November 2007 20:28 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Reading the day of the week Dear List I have a long standing frustration with Jaws and Outlook in that whilst Jaws will read happily dates in a calendar it will not read the days of the week printed on screen above a outlook calendar date. So for example I received an email today requesting my availability on 11th February 2008. At present the only way to get Outlook to tell me what day this is to create an actual appointment on that date whereupon I discover this is a Monday. This is a bit long winded and time consuming if you are trying to find a particular day in a month. I raised this problem on another list last year but nobody could come up with a solution. As far as I can see FS have still not resolved this problem in Jaws 9 though if they have this would definitely make me buy it. It occurs to me that a possible solution would be to create a simple Excel spreadsheet where the *weekday* function should theoretically return the day for any given date. My attempts to do this have failed spectacularly though and the Excel help seem unnecessarily obscure on this function. Are there any Excel wizards out there who can do this? What I was trying to do was nominate a cell like a1 to type in a date and use weekday to reference to that cell and give me the day of the week. 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