Flor, Here's exactly what my brother in law said regarding this txt attachment..
I can't do it either. I don't think it is the fact that she took the pictures out, or that it is a txt file or that you need to open it with notepad....I think it has to do with it being an eml attachment. I just can't open those. I guess she'll just have to copy and paste it into the body of the email. She doesn't have to worry about how pretty it looks, Jaws will read it anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read Trish, What conversion software would that be? And, when the pictures were removed there was probably no remaining text in the file. to a sighted person, text in images and straight text in files are virtually the same thing. (You would need OCR software to convert images of text into meaningful text.) Not sure what is the latest .docx version that Open Book can convert from. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trish" <[email protected]> To: "Jaws Users List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Attachment will not read >I recently received an attachment from my association. I cannot read it >no matter what I try, and sending it to my brother in law who can see, >he cannot see any text on it as well. > The first one was saved as a .dox, then my conversion software did not > convert it. So I asked the sender to send again in a .txt, which she > did, but even that jaws reads me nothing. She told me she removed the > pictures, I told her it wasn't necessary if there is text on the > screen. > I noticed that this attachment after the file extension says, in > bites. I've never heard that before and wonder if this is why I'm not > able to read it? > > My brother in law told me, it suggested to him to open the attachment > with OE, or Outlook, now he doesn't have OE on his job computer, he > might have Outlook, but still he wasn't able to read anything. > > Can anyone on list figure this out? > > Thanks, > > Trish > 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/
