hello Mike, In my message I meant to say insert with the number 5. The rest of the message still applies. I think the bottom line is that there is a problem with the JAWS application giving the correct foreground and background color and the incorrect RGB values. When I used the attributes with color scheme I did get better results but not always.
Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] > On Jul 7, 2014, at 1:30 PM, "Mike B." <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Try the keystroke, Insert + 5, & not, Insert + F5, & see if that keystroke > will report the colors correctly. > > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Lee > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:44 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > > Hello Mike, > > The insert F5 does not seem to be working correctly. I am not using Outlook > Express but Outlook 2013 but this seems to be true in Word as well. If you > hold down insert and press F5 twice you will hear 18 zeros. The first nine > are for the RGB value for the foreground color and the second set of nine > digits is for the RGB values of the background color. For a black character > on a default white background the values should be nine zeros and nine > digits with 255 as their value. However, if you change to the Attributes > and Color scheme and use up arrow when you are on a top line of text you > hear that the background is white even though insert with F5 says black on > black. If you type some text and change it to the default white font color > when you check the RGB values they might still indicate all black but if you > select the white text and check the RGB values in the custom color box for > font color the RGB is then given correctly for the white color. > > When using the Attributes and color scheme if I use CTRL with Home to move > to the top of this message and then use up arrow key I am told that there is > a white background. It does appear that the insert F5 is not working. Also > with the Attributes and Color scheme if I read current line I am told there > is a white background. Therefore, the reporting of nine zeros for the > background white color is not right. > > Take care. > > Brian Lee > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike B. > Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 10:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > Howdy Rick, > > Yes, that's what I noticed here as well. Thank you very much for the > verification. > Take care. > Mike > This email was sent from my, iBarstool. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Justice > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:56 AM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > > Hi Mike, > The same condition is true here. > The version of Jaws 13 thru 15 doesn't make any difference. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike B." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:03 AM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > > Good Morning Rick, > > These are my current settings. With a new message open & while in the > message edit field, I pressed, Alt + O, for the format menu. For style I > have normal checked, Font is set on black, > background is set for white, Incoding is Western European Windows, & rich > text HTML is checked. This is how my emails are all supposedly set. While > typing > this message & I press, Insert + 5, Jaws reports black on black but, once > sent & received, if I invoke the, Insert + 5, keystroke on the open / > received > message black on white is reported. So, I'm not sure if what Jaws reports > can be trusted or not. I'll have to get my wife & other sighted people I > know > to keep an eye on my messages & report back to me if any of them are not > readable. Any input about changing background / foreground colors in IE or > Windows > Explorer would be appreciated. Thank you very much for your reply. > > Take Care. > Mike > This email was sent from my iBarstool. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Justice > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:25 AM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > > Hi Mike, > From what I just found, it appears that you need to send your message in > "rich text HTML" format in order to change the background color. > While in an open message, choose the format menu, make sure that "rich > text > format" is checked and then open the background sub-menu, and then choose > color from the 3 available options. > No first letter navigation in the list of colors, so you will just have > arrow to white, and then hit enter to check the box. > I believe that the text color is determined by the O/S, and cannot be > changed. > Unless I don't understand what foreground and background colors that Jaws > is > reporting, I would say that it is reporting it incorrectly, which may be a > bug in Jaws or some type of setting. > It reports the same to me whether I am in a plain text or html message, > and > my background color is set to white for rich text format. > I am running Jaws 15 latest build, Win 7. > HTH, > Rick Justice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike B." <[email protected]> > To: "Jaws-Users List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 7:45 AM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Changing Background & Foreground colors > > > Hi All, > > I'm running Win7, Outlook Express, & J15. I noticed that background & > foreground colors in new messages are reported as black on black. How can > I > or, where do I go to change this to black on white? All help will be > greatly appreciated. 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