If you are using JAWS version 2.00.29 or later, there is a custom highlight setting, that lets
you tell JAWS to use colors you define as the highlight. It is documented in the
TECNOTES\ENU directory under the directory where you have JAWS installed, in a file
called HICOLOR.TXT

J. David Boyd
Software Engineer

Henter-Joyce, Inc.
11800 31st Ct N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33716

Phone: 813-803-8000

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In your message you wrote:

>     Sorry for the cross posting...  Here goes anyway...
>
>     I'm using windows, with Jaws for Windows, and want to use lynx on
>     my local unix box.  I telnet to unix, and run lynx.  I then want
>to ask jaws to read the current anchor.  Jaws, however, does not
>recognize anchors as being highlighted.  The colors seem consistant
>with what vocal-eyes reports them to be, but jaws just refuses to call
>"white on black" highlighted text.  I tried looking for other
>attributes "underline, strikeout, etc", but no text having any of these
>propperties is found.
>
>     Has anyone else out there tried a simmilar thing?  What exactly is
>jaws looking for when it looks for highlighted text (color on color, or
>some attribute of the font used which is set independant of color,
>etc).
>
>     Please e-mail me any responses directly, since I don't read most
>of these lists regularly.  Thanks a lot.
>
>
>                                                -- Rich
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