I have never experienced anything remotely like this. Have you trie d arepair of JAWS?
Bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://brucetola.livejournal.com Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Yardbird wrote:
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? -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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