Hi, Tim. To make the latest version of WindowsLiveMail accessible, you need
to do the following. Note that it will still have ribbons, but it will be
more accessible. This is from the WindowsLiveMail JAWS Users Guide
Customizing Windows Live Mail
Hiding the reading and calendar panes
To simplify the navigation in the main window in the Mail view, you may want
to hide both the Reading (preview) and the Calendar panes. You can do this
using a couple of controls which are both in the Layout group of the View
tab:
a.. The Reading pane menu button opens a set of options, where you can
choose the Off option.
b.. The Calendar pane button is pressed by default, and can be unpressed
by pressing it.
If you really want the reading pane, then to ensure that Jaws reads the
Message list correctly, then do one of the following:
a.. Set the Reading pane options to Bottom of the message list, rather
than Right of the message list.
b.. On the View tab, in the Layout group, press the Message list menu
button, and choose one line view.
Hiding the preview pane
To simplify the navigation in the main window in the Contacts view, you may
want to hide the preview pane.
1.. You can only hide this pane if the view of the contacts is set to List
rather than Online status. On the Home tab, in the View group, press the
View As menu button, and Choose List.
2.. Again on the Home tab, in the View group, move to the Preview button.
If Jaws reads the state of the button as being pressed, press the button.
Show the status bar
By default, the status bar is not shown. To show it: on the View tab, in the
Layout group, select the Status bar button. If Jaws doesn't say the button
is pressed, then press the button.
Bill White [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS) via Jfw" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:03 PM
Subject: Accessible Version of Windows Live Mail
HI All,
The actual question is: What version of Windows Live Mail works best with
JAWS 15? The background, in case anyone cares, is below.
I recently installed and configured without incident a version of Windows
Live Mail from back in 2009. It was the one I first happened on when
searching the Microsoft web site, and assuming it was the latest version,
I picked that.
I noticed this version has the old style alt menus, not the virtual
ribbon. A friend of mine has a newer version, and his has the virtual
ribbons.
I contacted the Microsoft accessibility office, and they quickly figured
out it was my old version of WLM that caused me to have the old style
menus. They emailed me a download link to the web page with the newer
versions. Version 2012 was listed first on the web page, and was the
newest, so I downloaded and installed that version. It seems to be
inaccessible, while that old original 2009 version works fine. I am sure
someone out there can let me know what I am doing wrong here!
Sincerely,
Tim Ford
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