An Outlook Express Jaws 8 issue-- one among many peculiarities
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:48:40 -0800
Hi all,
I'm not anticipating that anyone is likely to have a fix for this problem,
which is just one out of a long list of Jaws 8 misbehaviors that I'm making
a list of so that I can send FS a coherent report about the weird stuff this
version does on my system. by which I don't mean my digestive system,
although I'd have to say that the stress quotient from having to deal with
this stuff must be causing me some of the heartburn I've been suffering
lately. Anyway, it sounds dramatic to say so.
But here's just one interesting misbehavior among many: When I have an email
open with active links in it, such as I get each morning from the New York
times and Los Angeles times with selections of headlines with links for
going to read them online, or when someone posts a helpful message about
some information available at some blind tech site, and I come to that link
with my cursor and Enter on it, Internet Explorer properly launches if it
isn't already running, and the page that URL belongs to loads. I can hear
this in progress by reading the OE status line with Insert Page Down.
so far, all that's normal. But here's what happens that is really weird, if
I stay in the open email and don't get out of there immediately to go into
the browser: Jaws begins to read downward in the email from the point where
I clicked on that link, and won't stop unless I catch it, hit Control to
shut Reed up, and then arrow back up to where I meant to leave the cursor at
that link before proceeding down the email. Jaws just takes off on its own
and tries to go on reading the rest of the email. I've never had this happen
before, and it took me some time before I understood clearly what was up and
learned to ignore the confusing distraction of hearing this stuff while
trying to figure out if the Web page was loading. it's even caused me to
lose my place in the email because, check this out, I might stop Jaws from
reading the email, but then it starts talking about the opening Web page, as
if I'd been taken to it the way you are when clicking on a link in an email
launches the browser. But in these cases, the browser will already have
been running, and in fact I'm still with the open email on screen in front
of me. But nonetheless, Jaws is happily reporting that the page is 20 per
cent, 24 per cent, 50 per cent, 100 per cent loaded and then that it has
nine frames and 360 links. While I'm still actually in the open email.
It's tricky for me to figure this out, but with my limited vision, I was
able to look carefully at the screen and realize that what was on it was
still Outlook Express with an open message. Until I figured it out, I was
doing stuff like pressing Control Home to go to the top of the loading Web
page, which sounded as if Jaws were just reading down it without my consent,
already. And of course, it turned out I was pressing Control Home in the
open email, and losing my place in it, which is a pain.
So, I hope this sounds amusing, because I admit it's pretty goofy. But what
I want to know is, has anybody else experienced this particular thing? Or
is it just me, as we say? Just kidding. I don't think there's anything the
matter with my system and its configuration, Jaws-wise.
So?
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