Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws

  • From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:37:49 -0500

If it's not in add remove programs, some versions are, some aren't, but if 
it's not there, I sent uninstall instructions to the list a bit ago, like 2 
minutes ago, check them, if you try the steps and they don't work, you don't 
have it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Gomes" <finnygomes@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws


> how can you tell if you have flash or macro media player on your system.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Toews" <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>
>
>> Depends on the Web page. I have it on my system without difficulties.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
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>> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, chevelle wrote:
>>
>>> I thought you needed macro media flash installed to have webpages load
>>> properly.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 1:22 PM
>>> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ya,  it wasn't any slower then any other site, 5 seconds or so from
>>>> opening
>>>> it and it read fine, maybe not even that long. I tried both those sites
>>>> and
>>>> nothing went wrong,  I'm suspecting macromedia flash again for now, 
>>>> that
>>>> used to do that to me with a couple sites when I last had it installed
>>>> but
>>>> I
>>>> got rid of that and it fixed it with a couple other sites I used to 
>>>> have
>>>> a
>>>> problem like that on.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:56 PM
>>>> 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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