[gui-talk] Outlook and Word 2013

[David Andrews]

I don't know if this is still the case, but a couple years ago, on 
some machines, it made a difference whether JAWS or Zoomtext was 
loaded first -- so you might try things the other way from what you 
are doing now.

Dave

At 10:34 AM 8/3/2015, you wrote:
>My office has "upgraded" me to Outlook and Word 2013 at the end of 
>last week, along with changing my magnification software from MAGic 
>to ZoomText.  JAWS remains my main access to the computer (ZoomText 
>is for those many court and agency websites that are not truly 
>accessible, so that I have at least a semi-fighting chance at being 
>able to mouse at huge magnification).  I remain on JAWS 
>16/Professional, and we are still using Windows 7.
>
>I am noticing many strange things, and am not sure if anyone else 
>has run into them - for starters, JAWS does not uniformly work with 
>Outlook, at least not the way it was working with 2010 and previous 
>versions.  It will reade the top part of the e-mail (ti, from, 
>subject), but will not continue down to the message body, and often 
>resists any keyboard command to jump to that section.  Also, the 
>listed shortcuts to disable/enable ZoomText do not work, despite 
>JAWS narrating that they are.  IT worked on this for nearly an hour 
>on Friday before I suggested that I will simply reduce / enlarge the 
>magnification with the keyboard commands (which DO work, unly the 
>other) instead.  More strangeness seems to be cropping up as I work 
>this morning.
>
>I am never sure if it is the program or our network.  Has anyone 
>else run into these types of oddities when using Outlook and Word 2013?