If you press the Jaws key (the zero on the number pad, and usually the caps
lock on a laptop) and the letter "a" you will hear the name of the
attachment.
If you press enter you will be given a choice to open the attachment, or
save it to disk.
The other methods mentioned below do work, and since they are windows
conventions they work with all screen readers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Opening text attachments with Jaws.
> Well, there are 2 ways, if you want to save the attachment, in the file
> menu, when you hit alt it's the first one, enter on save attachments, if
> you just want to open the attachment, in the main body of the message,
> shift+tab once and you should be able to hear the file name, hit enter on
> that, other wise, shift tab to the subject line and then tab once, it
> should put you on the file name, then you hit enter, it asks you if you
want
> to save or open the file and just arrow to your choice and hit enter again
> and it will do it.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Heiser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:01 AM
> Subject: Opening text attachments with Jaws.
>
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> >
> > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C46593.5E72DB80
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > Hello,
> > I received an attachment article as a text file.
> > I am using Jaws 4.5 with Outlook Express. I tab from the subject to the
=
> > edit section but there is no text there. What Key strokes to I use to =
> > open the attachment?
> > Someone said you have to click on the paper clip but that doesn't help =
> > me at all.
> > Thanks
> > Bob
> > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C46593.5E72DB80
> > Content-Type: text/html;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> > <HTML><HEAD>
> > <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
> > charset=3Diso-8859-1">
> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR>
> > <STYLE></STYLE>
> > </HEAD>
> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I received =
> > an attachment article as a=20
> > text file.</FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am using Jaws 4.5 with =
> > </FONT><FONT=20
> > face=3DArial size=3D2>Outlook Express. I tab from the subject to the =
> > edit section=20
> > but there is no text there. What Key strokes to I use to
open the=20
> > attachment?</FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Someone said you have to click on
=
> > the paper=20
> > clip but that doesn't help me at all.</FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bob</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
> >
> > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C46593.5E72DB80--
> >
>
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