I have an old computer here running Windows XP Pro. I know, it's not
getting security updates anymore, nor is supported any longer by Microsoft.
I totally get it. I'm A+ certified, so trust me, I'm totally aware of that.
I can't really upgrade it though as the hardware's too old. That's beside
the point though.
I have some usable vision. Not enough to read the screen, but I do like
seeing when certain things pop up on the screen etc. For me however, the
normal color scheme is terrible. You'll know in a second how this relates
to O E, so just stick with me on this. I like using the high contrast dark
scheme. This way, it's basically a high contrast with white windows and
text, on a dark solid black background.
The problem is, I'm having this really really weird issue where no matter
what folder I'm in of my Outlook Express, If I up and down arrow through the
list of my mail, or for that mind, hit my jaws key+numpad 8 to read the
current line, or in this case, to read the currently focussed e-mail, I hear
that the message is unread. It tells me this even after I've opened and
read the message. I totally get that there is a setting in options of O E
to specify how long the message must be opened before it turns the flag to
read, but that isn't the problem here, trust me. When I am set on the
Windows Standard color scheme, this problem doesn't exist. It's only
happening with the high contrast dark themes. I've tried it with both of
them, and both have the issue. This is occurring both when the main O E
window is maximized, as well as when it's not maximized. I'm not showing my
preview payne, although, just for a test, I did turn it on temporarily, and
that didn't fix the problem. The other thing that is weird as all get out
is, if I have no messages in my currently selected folder, yet, I hit jaws
key+num pad 8, even though no message is selected, as there are none there
to start with, it still reports unread. Granted, it doesn't read any
message, but, it still says unread, whereas with just the normal Windows
standard scheme loaded, it doesn't say anything. Before you all ask, yes.
Jaws key+tab is producing the exact same results in all above senarios.
I suspect that this has something to do with a custom highlight color which
jfw uses to detect the flags of read vs. unread, but I'd not know to save my
life where to even begin to confirm this, nor to tweek it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If we have any script writers on
this list who could tell me step by step where to go, and what to change in
my Outlook Express jss file or where ever to fix this, that would be great!
I'm not scared to modify script files, as long as you tell me step by step
exactly down to a T what to do.
Thank you.
Chris.
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