[gui-talk] stupid JAWS tricks

Wayne Merritt wcmerritt at gmail.com
Fri May 1 19:04:00 UTC 2009


Perhaps the phrases refer to the type of stationary used for said email.

Wayne

On 5/1/09, Hoffman, Allen <Allen.Hoffman at dhs.gov> wrote:
> Clear Day
> If a user sets Outlook to use Word as the editor, and they use Smart
> Tags, often times a title is set to stupid phrases as :"draft v", "clear
> day", or other strangeness.
>
> when the email is opened in Outlook, for some reason, JAWS reads that
> stuff at the start of the email, for example the first line of this
> email.
>
> My point is, why does JAWS read that, and for God's sake why must
> Outlook include such information?
> What would I do with it?
> What would an email client do wit it?
>
> I expect if I screw around with JAWS verbosity configuration settings I
> can make this stop, but my opinion of setting custom settings for
> regular daily work is not a high one.
>
> Anyway, if any of the rest of you wondered what the heck some of those
> stupid phrases were in the start of your emails, and where they were
> coming from, that's it, now we know--not much good though, is it?
>
> Sigh, glad that mystery is solved.
> Back on my head.
>
>
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