RE: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people

  • From: "Thomas Stivers" <thomas.stivers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:43:49 -0600

I can reproduce the crash of jaws. The send error report screen comes up
and alt-d will dismiss it so I can then do ctrl-alt-j to start jaws
again. The combination of letters that brings about the crash is c a e s
u r e, which is a misspelling, but jaws shouldn't be that picky about
spelling. I did have to fight a strong temptation to send the word on
the list and crash a few thousand people's copies of jaws, so be proud
of me. Let's just hope that all the other list members have scruples as
well. I think I will switch to dectalk access 32 for a while just to be
on the safe side.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jack Lowe
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:18 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people


Well, I just tried it several times and it didn't crash.  And I can
honestly say
that in my 6 years of using different computers and the various versions
of
Jaws.  I've never seen Jaws crash because of the spelling of a word.
This is
all news to me.  I just don't see how it's possible.  Combinations of
letters
are nothing but sounds, and jaws just pronounces, or tries to pronounce
what it
sees.  Now, why a curtain group of letters and sounds could cause Jaws
to crash
just doesn't make sense.  I'm not saying that it can't happen, but the
likelihood of it happening is nearly impossible.

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