Ted,
Thanks very much for this explanation.
After reading your message, I was able to start my new email in Outlook,
shift+tab to the To field, press enter, type the first two letters of
the recipient's last name, then down-arrow through a list of suggestions.
I pressed enter on the name I wanted, expecting it to go into the To
field. What happened, though, was that Outlook asked if I wanted the
person to go into my contacts, and when I tabbed around or hit the
applications key, I didn't find any options for copying the email
address, composing a message to, etc. I decided not to add the person to
my contacts because this step wasn't happening for my colleagues.
Does the person have to be a contact?
Thanks.
Ciao
On 4/9/2020 3:05 PM, Ted Chittenden wrote:
> Catherine:
> You are partially correct. When you type in the first, or first two, letters of an email address into Outlook and you have sent email to that person in the past, then that person's name will appear on the list to which you are referring. However, if you have not sent an email to that address before, then the address you are looking for will not appear on the list of addresses that Outlook provides for you to choose from.
>
> On the bright side, if you have not sent an email to the address you are sending to but it is an address in your address (Contacts) list, you can shift+tab to the BCC (once), CC (twice), or To (thrice) buttons and press enter. A new window will open that will allow you to choose from all of the addresses in your Contacts list and you can determine from that window which addresses you want and whether you want them to be in the To, CC, or BCC fields.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot give an answer to you, Ana, for I have not tried using Outlook with Narrator. However, I suspect that the accessibility is very similar to that of JAWS (it's probably better in updated additions of Windows 10), mainly because both Narrator and Outlook are Microsoft products.
>
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> Ted Chittenden
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Catherine Getchell
> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:12 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Outlook 2016 and the To Field
>
> Hi Ana,
>
> If you start typing the name and then hit the down arrow, you should see the option for the person you want to email. Then just press enter on that name. I use JAWS though, so I can't speak to how Narrator handles these dropdowns. Hope that helps.
> Catherine
>
> On 4/8/20, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> Basically, I think I'm asking how autocomplete works in the recipient
>> field for Outlook.
>>
>>
>> We use Outlook at work. In most cases, someone's email address is the
>> first letter of the first name followed by the complete last name:
>> Charley Brown would be [log in to unmask] When my sighted colleagues
>> want to email a person, they type all or part of the last name, then
>> choose from a dropdown of some sort.
>>
>>
>> How does that work when you're using a screen reader, specifically
>> Narrator?
>>
>>
>> The version of Windows 10 that is used at work is a couple of years
>> old,
>> 2017 or 2018. I use it with Narrator. Caps+tab is the command you use
>> to know where focus is. I point this out because the command is now
>> caps+i and because the version of Narrator on the system is buggy
>> enough for me to wonder if the problem I'm having is related to the screen reader or not.
>>
>>
>> When I type text into the To field, I don't get spoken feedback with
>> the say-line command, but I do get spoken feedback with the
>> left/right-arrow keys. So I type the email address. Then when I'm
>> done, I left-arrow to make sure I typed it correctly. If I tab to
>> something else (e.g., the Subject field), then shift+tab back to the
>> To field, I find the email address I typed as a button with the recipient's first and last name.
>> What I'm thinking is that I entered an address that is in the
>> directory/contacts.
>>
>>
>> How do I access the dropdown my colleagues are using? Do I just
>> down-arrow? Is there any spoken feedback with say-line, or do I need
>> to left/right-arrow?
>>
>>
>> Any wisdom would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Ciao
>>
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