[JAWSLite] jaws 10 crashes
- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:28:46 -0600
I am having a lot of trouble going to certain websites with jaws 10. I keep
getting a dialog saying that some application has crashed at some address,
and I click ok to close it. This doesn't kill jaws, however the problem
always occurs on google and other websites with edit boxes. I arrow around
listening to the nifty sound effects entering and leaving forms mode, but
jaws will invariably freeze and the only way out is to close everything
until jaws starts speaking again, then close the dialog, which is the only
thing left open.
Is there some helper app that allows jaws 10 to enter or leave forms mode on
webpages? I couldn't retrieve the name of the app that was crashing.
Is this a jaws bug? I am going back to jaws 9.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
A final note about auto forms mode: While it can be very convenient, I find
that there are times (more often than not in fact) when I want to turn forms
mode on and off manually. Case in point: When I go to google.com (my home
page) I land on the text box for google search, i hear jaws go into forms
mode, but often I don't want to search but rather type in and jump to a
different site. Normally I hit control+o to open a new link, but this action
in forms mode seems to cause problems.
Another time when I want to use forms mode manually is when the web page has
markup that throw off jaws heuristics on what to speak as the label or
context of the form control. This is especially important when looking at
buttons and checkboxes.
Anyway, I am going to copy this mail to jaws tech support and see what they
have to say. If this is a jaws 10 bug I want to do my part to squash it (the
bug that is...)
Happy computing.
--le
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