Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws

  • From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:23:23 -0500

Hi Walt. Well yours did almost the same as mine except Jaws moved very very 
very slowly down the page, then Jaws just quit. I coudln't even bring it 
back up, so I had to do a hard shutdown.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws


> Foxnews.com does not work with JAWS. No loss. I tried www.fox.com and got 
> a
> Macromedia Flash Movie which makes a lot of sitcom style noise. Eventually 
> I
> could move on the page, but then JAWS got shut down. I have JAWS loaded on 
> a
> hot key combo and got it back after a few alt f4s.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>
>
>> John, you are able to move down the page with no problem? Jaws wasn't 
>> slow
>> or anything? It read the information right away? If that's the case you
>> are
>> lucky. Even when I go to the www.deankoontz.com, and I want to read an
>> excert from one of his books, when I click on that excert link jaws will
>> either stop speaking in the middle of the line or it just won't speak at
>> all, and when I press the down arrow sometime it will start to speak for 
>> a
>> bit then qucik, sometimes it just won't speak at all.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>
>>
>>> hmmm, it worked for me no problem, I didn't even get that info bar 
>>> sound,
>>> or
>>> if I did I ignored it but I was able to do anything on the page I 
>>> wanted.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Steve Gomes" <finnygomes@xxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just went to fox.com and it made a funny beep like there is flash or
>>>> something. I am getting nothing.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:12 AM
>>>> Subject: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello!, can someone please! try and explain why Jaws behaves the way 
>>>>> it
>>>>> does! I've noticing this behavior happening more and more. I just 
>>>>> tried
>>>>> to
>>>>> go to www.fox.com. For some reason Jaws was very very very
>>>>> nonresponsive.
>>>>> It would take a long long long long time when pressing the down arrow
>>>>> keys
>>>>> for jaws to go down the next line. Why is this happening on certain
>>>>> webpages. Then Jaws just froze. This time I couldn't even unload jaws
>>>>> to
>>>>> reload jaws. Sometimes I will be reading e-mail, I will click on a
>>>>> link,
>>>>> and jaws will just freeze. Sometimes I can unload jaws and reload jaws
>>>>> and
>>>>> it will work fine, but why should I have to keep doing this. This gets
>>>>> me
>>>>> so frustrated. The other screen reader doesn't freeze up so this tells
>>>>> me
>>>>> it is a Jaws issues. Using jaws 5.1 windows xp. I don't any other
>>>>> programs
>>>>> running in the background. At times I just want to smash all the jaws
>>>>> disks and my laptop. There has to be something about this stupid jaws
>>>>> program that it acts this way, and why fre
>>>>> edomscientific doeosn't do a better job with their overpriced product.
>>>>> The
>>>>> times jaws goes really really really slow on a webpage, if I am able 
>>>>> to
>>>>> unload jaws I can load the other screen reader, and it acts just fine
>>>>> on
>>>>> the webpage.
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