The research department is open for business once again, great post Ray. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com VIP Conduit Tech Support www.vipconduit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Boyce" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:55 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] what is the most accessible version of eudora?
Hi Randy Eudora - Helpful Hints Optimizing Eudora To optimize Eudora's performance with JAWS, we recommend the following: Maximize All Windows Make sure that the main parent window and all child windows are maximized. Even after doing so, Eudora will sometimes return child windows to a restored state, affecting how well JAWS reads them. If you experience this, open the Adjust JAWS Options dialog, INSERT+V, move to Mailboxes Should Be, and press SPACEBAR to set it to Maximized for Best Speaking. Microsoft Viewer Turn on the Microsoft Viewer. Many email messages are richly formatted as if they were internet web pages and contain information which is only fully reported if the Microsoft Viewer is turned on. This allows email messages to be read in Eudora much like they are read in Internet Explorer. Email messages are read with the virtual cursor, and all web page types of formatting are reported. To turn on the Microsoft Viewer, open the tools menu (ALT+T), press O for Options, arrow to the Viewing Mail category, and TAB to the Use Microsoft's Viewer checkbox. Press SPACEBAR to check this item if it is not already checked. Close Eudora and restart it to make sure this change takes effect. Move Directly from Message to Message Configure Eudora so you can move from message body to message body with ALT+LEFT or RIGHT ARROW - without returning to the message list. To do this, open the Tools menu with ALT+T, press O for Options, arrow to the Miscellaneous category, and TAB to the checkbox labeled Alt+Arrow Keys. Make sure this is checked. Make sure that the first checkbox in this category, Unmodified Arrow Keys, is not checked. If this option is checked, then you will not be able to use the arrow keys to navigate the text within a message. Instead, the arrow keys will move focus from message to message. Hear Download Information Choose whether you wish to hear detailed information about the number of messages being downloaded while checking mail. If you wish to hear this information at any time, open the Tools menu with ALT+T, press O for Options, and arrow to the Background Tasks category. Then TAB to the checkbox called Bring Task Status Window to Front and make sure it is checked. This is the window which displays the download information during mail checks. If this option is enabled, you can turn the automatic speaking of that information on/off by pressing the command CTRL+SHIFT+D. You can also change the default status for this option by using the new option in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog to enable or disable the speaking of download information. This new default is used every time Eudora is started. Whichever default setting is chosen, you can always toggle the speaking of download information on/off for the current session of Eudora by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+D. Also, you can elect to bring the Task Status window to the front at any time by opening it with CTRL+4, even if the Bring Task Status Window to Front checkbox has not been checked in Eudora options. F6 in Various Windows F6 performs a particular function in certain Eudora windows such as the Address Book and Filters windows. In the Address Book, for example, F6 is used to switch views from the list of nicknames where one is normally placed upon opening this window to the detailed information for each nickname. If a particular nickname is highlighted, pressing F6 switches focus to a pane where the full name, email address, and other information for that nickname are displayed. Similarly, in the Filters window, pressing F6 switches the view from the list of filters to the detailed information for that filter. To modify a filter, highlight it in the list and press F6. Also, after a new filter is first created by pressing the New button or ALT+N, pressing F6 will switch focus to the new filter's information pane where you can type in the desired settings. In both the Address Book and Filters windows, pressing F6 a second time switches focus back to the nickname or filters lists. Preview Pane Eudora can be set up to display a Preview Pane below the mailbox list. This Preview Pane displays part of the message currently highlighted in the list. To enable or disable the Preview Pane, open the Tools menu (ALT+T), press O for Options, arrow to Viewing Mail, and TAB to the Show Message Preview Pane checkbox. Press SPACEBAR to check or clear this item. The JAWS command ALT+CTRL+INSERT+DOWN ARROW is used to read this pane without opening the message. If the message is short, its entire contents can be read in this way. This can greatly speed up the reading of messages since it saves the time needed to open each message. Two Find Dialogs Eudora has two types of Find dialogs. The first is the conventional type which is used to find text within a message. It is accessed with CTRL+SHIFT+F. This dialog does not work if the Microsoft Viewer is being used, and attempting to activate it brings up the JAWS Find dialog instead. The second, more advanced Find dialog is called Find Messages. This is accessed with CTRL+F, and is used to find messages containing specified text residing in any of Eudora's mailboxes. Advanced search parameters can be specified, and any or all of Eudora's mailboxes can be selected for the search. For information on new JAWS features supporting the Find Messages dialog, refer to Eudora What's New. Verbosity Settings There are several items in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog box, INSERT+V. These items allow you to set default options for how JAWS behaves in certain situations. All of these settings are saved to a special file when the Adjust JAWS Options dialog box is closed, and the choices are used in all future sessions of Eudora. The options are as follows. Default Speaking of Download Information Eudora can announce the status of message downloading while checking and/or sending mail. The first item in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog allows you to turn this option on and off by default. For this option to work properly, you must open the Options dialog from the Tools menu, select the Background Tasks option, and tab to and check the Bring Task Status Window to Front checkbox. As in the past, you can still elect to turn the speaking of download information on or off just for the current session of Eudora by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+D, but that setting is not saved for future sessions of Eudora. Changing the default behavior in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog also updates the session setting to keep the two synchronized and prevent confusion. Speak Shortcut Keys As Set JAWS to announce Descriptive Names or Command Combinations for Eudora and JAWS shortcut keys. This allows you to hear the command spoken either as what it does or as the key combination pressed. For example, when checking mail, you can hear either "Check Mail" or "CTRL+M," depending on how this preference is set. Windows Should Be Set this option to Maximized for Best Speaking or Changed as Directed by Eudora. Eudora tends to restore mailboxes and windows that have been maximized. This results in JAWS occasionally reading information incorrectly. If you set this option to Maximized for Best Speaking, JAWS checks to make sure Eudora windows are maximized whenever focus changes between mailboxes, and will maximize any windows Eudora has restored. Say Message Data Set this option to Always or If Open From Another Message. When this option is set to Always, you always hear the message data such as sender, subject, date, etc., when opening the message. If set to If Open From Another Message, the message data is only heard if you move from message body to message body using ALT+LEFT ARROW and ALT+RIGHT ARROW. The message data is not heard if the message is open from a mailbox. If you are opening a message from a mailbox, the message data is already right there and you may not wish to have the information repeated. When Opening Message Set this option to Speak Link Count or Do Not Speak Link Count. When set to the first option, JAWS announces how many links the message contains. When set to the second option, this message is not heard. Opened Messages Set this option to Will Read automatically or Will Not Read automatically. If the first is chosen, newly opened messages begin reading by themselves. If the second is chosen, you must start reading the message manually. When Replying Set this option to Insert Blank Lines at Top or Don't Insert Blank Lines at Top. This determines whether or not JAWS inserts two blank lines at the top of the message composition window after you press CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R to reply to a message. The default option is Don't Insert Blank Lines at Top. Note: This option only works when you reply to messages using the shortcut keys CTRL+R and CTRL+SHIFT+R. If you reply using options from the Messages menu, the blank lines are not inserted. In the Find Messages Dialog Eudora's Find Messages dialog, opens using CTRL+F. In addition to pressing F6 to move to the list of search results, you can now press SHIFT+F6 to move to the Mailboxes treeview to select which mailboxes are included in your search. Move through the listed mailboxes with UP or DOWN ARROW, and press SPACEBAR to check or clear selection of a mailbox. Press ALT+F6 to hear how many mailboxes are selected or how many search matches were found. Reading of Attachments List >From the body of a message, you can now press CTRL+SHIFT+H to read and edit the attachments list. Skipping Past Headers Press ALT+CTRL+INSERT+DOWN ARROW to skip past the headers in a message and start reading the message. This is useful if you have moved to the top of the message window. CTRL+DELETE JAWS now reads the word the cursor lands on after CTRL+DELETE is used to delete the current word in an edit field inside the message body. CTRL+DELETE now deletes everything to the right of the cursor if the cursor is in the To, Subject, Cc, or Bcc fields. In this case JAWS now says "Delete Right" and speaks everything remaining to the left of the cursor. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Tijerina Sent: Saturday, 12 December 2009 5:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] what is the most accessible version of eudora? Friends, subject says it all. I'd like to try out the most accessible version of eudora. Will I have to call my internet provider and set things all up again? I'd also like a little list of helpful hents and or shortcuts to for example reply to a message save attachments, etc. I'd very much appreciate it. Randy. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
