Years ago when I had my first copy of Jaws 6 whilst I was working I was
told that my use of the High Contrast white on Black scheme would cause
unpredictability and errors in my use of Jaws and that I should use the
default Windows Colour scheme instead.
As then I had some vision I was unhappy about losing this high
contrast.
The response from the Access Company supporting me was to design a
custom
colour scheme which Jaws could work properly with. Essentially this
involved
removing every instance of the black colour and replacing it with dark
blue. To my eyesight at the time I could not really tell the difference
but
Jaws definitely worked better and spent less time for example reading
out
elements twice.
Whilst they were about it I asked them to remove all the purple elements
of
the scheme and replace it with red which also make the vision slightly
better for me.
I no longer even turn the monitor on so I no longer bother with all this
but the custom scheme did help me for a while.
I may have it on a backup drive somewhere if you want me to sendspace it
to
see if it will help.
David Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Christopher-Mark
Gilland
Sent: 26 May 2014 20:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Very strange problem with JFW 15 and Outlook Express
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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