I, too, have more than a few weird issues with Jaws 17 and Thunderbird. 
Jaws does not read all screen objects as I tab to them. Jaws also seems 
to often stop talking for a length of time or run very slowly. If a new 
message arrives in my Inbox while I am writing or editing a message, 
these behaviors are exacerbated even further. For example, it just 
happened and Jaws seemed to lose its place in the message text. Tabbing 
back to the Subject field and then back to the text seems to reset 
things. I, too, have had difficulty editing a forwarded message. 
Sometimes I have resorted to copy and pasting the entire message text 
into Notepad, removing the unwanted message header and replacing the 
message text. Kind of old school and kludgey, but it seems to work.


Cheers,

Duane



On 11/4/2016 8:07 AM, Ana G wrote:
> I have a lot of weird little issues with Jaws and Thunderbird.
>
>
> One area is with messages I'm trying to forward. Most of the time, the 
> body of the message seems blank, and I can't do anything with the header.
>
>
> what I do instead is reply, tab to the To edit box, and change the 
> name. Then I can cut the headers and do whatever else I need to do.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/3/2016 9:29 PM, Rachel wrote:
>> Hi, everyone.
>>
>> I'm not sure when this problem started, but likely with the latest 
>> release of either JAWS (V17) or Thunderbird.
>>
>>
>> When I forward messages to others, I like to remove the headers so 
>> that people can just begin reading the message on the first screen.  
>> But lately, it seems that the headers are in table form - or at least 
>> JAWS thinks they are.  And though I can physically delete the text 
>> itself, the space/lines that it takes up is still there, and I can't 
>> get rid of it no matter what I do.  Is there a way to delete a table 
>> easily from within a Thunderbird message?
>>
>>
>> Also, sometimes, after I've deleted the header text, I can't actually 
>> see the original message - JAWS just says "blank," and the Braille 
>> shows nothing, too.  What is going on?
>>
>>
>> I never used to have such problems, and I'm so frustrated! I want to 
>> do the courteous thing in deleting all that excess header info from 
>> messages, but I'm at the point of just not wanting to bother with it 
>> anymore.  Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any ideas on what to do.
>>
>> Rachel
>>
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