[NFBCS] Image in email

Thu Jan 12 01:29:04 UTC 2023

Yet another way, while you’re in the message list.  Press “Tab” about 3 times till you hear “Sort, Arrange or Filter Messages Button”.  Press Space or Enter to activate the button and you’re in a vertical menu.  Arrow down through the filters like All, Unread, and the sorting like Date, From, etc.  When you press Enter you’re back in the message list. 

Note, the “Sort Button” that is immediately after the Sort Arrange or Filter button when pressed just changes the Ascending / Descending sort of whatever you have active.

Also note, in those tab presses you’ll cross over a set of buttons.  These buttons vary by Outlook subscription.  You may have Focused and Other inboxes, or you may have All and Unread filtered inboxes that apply filters.

Best,

CV

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Image in email

Hello:

It seems to me that the primary issue here is not being able to handle the images imbedded in the body of an email but knowing that there is an image when you receive an email so that you can use whatever procedure works best for you to handle the image. I got around this issue simply by going into JAWS Quick Settings and telling JAWS to announce all graphics, whether or not they were labeled. Then, once I know that there is a graphic, I can take whatever action I need to get to the graphic.

Warmly,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Image in email

Beth and Tracy,

I get images a lot on my work emails, too.  I would appreciate comments from others as well.  With Outlook, even when doing my work email so images are downloaded, that screen shots just are not detected by JAWS, either.  I don’t get any kind of graphic or image identifier.  If I reply to the note and then look at the original within my reply, I do find the images very clearly identified.  You might see if that helps, Tracy.  I have also have very poor luck with doing OCR on the screen within emails.  Sometimes I can print out an email and look at it with the Optacon and the image seems pretty clear, but JAWS doesn’t seem to pick it up.  

I have had success copying the image into Word and then doing OCR on the Window within word.  Saving it to a PDF probably would also work, but it just seems there should be a better way to deal with this and I suspect I am just missing something. 

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Image in email

Hi Tracy,

Unfortunately, I get these type of email messages at work all the time. Perhaps someone put a screen shot in the middle of your message because sometimes when that happens, the message appears blank. Other times, the message will say “graphic 25” or mention a JPG or PNG file. Since you don’t have that, perhaps try the JAWS OCR to read the screen, insert space, then o, then s for screen. If there is an image there, JAWS should read it. Not sure if NVDA has a similar feature.

Hope this helps. 😊

Beth

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Subject: [NFBCS] Image in email

I received an email about a report I need to write, and apparently it contained an image or some sort, including some data I need for the specs.  But I saw no indication of any sort that there was an image, or where it might be, except someone else referring to it being there.

How can I tell if an email contains an image?  If I suspect it does, do I copy the whole email to Word, then save as PDF, then run Jaws OCR on that PDF?  Is that the right process?

I sent the email to a colleague, and she saw the data no problem, but I don’t see it at all.

Tracy

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