[jaws-uk] Re: More JAWS and Word problems
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:53:13 -0000
As far as I know we don't have any Word 2003 users having such serious slow
downs as you appear to be having, one thing I have noticed with MS Office
installs since 2003 is that in some cases it has been possible for users to
turn on the speech recognition features of Office somehow by accident, it
sounds like the PC is working very hard at something. I cannot be certain but
I would suggest running the main Word setup and see if you can trim the speech
recognition features off the installation if you don't need them, that will
stop them becoming active in any way.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: tim.pennick@xxxxxx
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:37 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] More JAWS and Word problems
Hi All,
This one is getting me really wound up.
As per earlier messages on this list, I've been having problemms with
sluggish performance in Word for several weeks. I've been putting this
down to large documents, and possible config changes I've made and
forgotten about, particularly as regards markup etc.
I upgraded to JAWS 8 on Fridy, and suddenly the performance increased
dramatically. However, when I started up word this morning, I noticed
that the braille display was no longer keeping track with the speech
synth as I arrowed up and down. I then noticed that ALT-TABBING away
from word didn't speak the name of the application I'd landed on.
Response to anything I typed became slower and slower until I closed
word and visited Outlook and Excel to see if the performance problems
existed there too. They didn't. The problems in word include lack of
speech an dbraille response to pressing ALT to bring up the menu bar,
and also no JAWS response to pressing the Windows key. It is almost
impossible to update a document as the position isn't trackable.
I down-graded JAWS to 7.10 with no improvement, and ran a "detect and
repair, and then a re-install of Word, all "to no avail".
This only seems to be a problem with JAWS and Word. Narrator doesn't
seem to be affected, and JAWS and other apps are working fine so far.
I'm running office 2003 on XP SP2.
Any Thoughts?
Tim Pennick
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email: tim.pennick@xxxxxx
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