RE: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
- From: "CrisMunoz54" <crismunoz54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 18:29:26 -0700
Hi,
Thanks for the response. I?ve tried doing left/right shift, alt, control and
windows keys till the cows come home and no dice.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Farfar Carlson
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:40 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
Chris,
I'm almost with you on going back to JFW 11 but not yet.
I've encountered similar issues with navigating in a message area in Outlook
2007 occasionally. I've found that it's usually because one of the modifier
keys are stuck (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Windows). Multiple presses of left/right
keys get this resolved and often I'm back in business.
Of course this does not sound like how JFW 11 used to behave for me, but
it's been so long I wouldn't be a reliable reporter on behavior.
However it does happen with JFW 12.0.525 and has happened to some extent for
every version of JAWS as far back as 3.5. And of course the "stuck key" is
always blamed on the keyboard drivers used by MS. Big surprise.
Anyway thought I'd pass along that suggestion, just in case it makes things
easier for you.
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio
Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
----- Original Message -----
From: CrisMunoz54 <mailto:crismunoz54@xxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:28
Subject: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
Hello list,
With all the trouble that the latest Jaws release (12.0.1158) has given me
and others on these various slists, I have gone back to using Jaws 11
(11.0.1476
I think it is) for now. Aside from the issues here and there that have been
fixed in the newer JFW 12 releases, I?m satisfied with Jaws 11 over all.
There is one thing however that I am experiencing and because it?s been so
long since I?ve used JFW 11, I can?t recall if this was present in Jaws 11
when
it was still the newest build.
When I open a Word document, be it by launching MicrosoftWord itself or by
composing an e-mail message through my Outlook 2003, I have difficulty with
getting
around the message field.
I can type in the subject field with no problems and can arrow back and
forth by character, word etc, but when I?m in the message field for example,
I can?t
seem to do anything. Jaws will just read the line of text that I?m on, but I
am unable to arrow back and forth or up and down. Very similar if I had the
virtual cursor turned off on a webpage. The same goes for when I?ve got a
Word document open. I can type fine and dandy, but once I try using the
various
say all commands, It?s almost completely a no go. The say all command works,
but that's it.
I?ve tried switching the format from plane text to rtf to html and it
doesn't make a difference. I've also tried going from the normal view to web
etc in
the view menu and still nothing.
Sometimes, and for no reason, everything will work fine and I can navegate
text wit no problems, but the troubles explained above happen more often
than
not and because of this, I'm finding myself using JFW 11 for pretty much
everything, but when I have to type something or compose or respond to an
e-mail,
I'm switching between the two JFW versions. I can't figure out why sometimes
things will work fine and others, it's just not happening.
Is anyone else experiencing this and if so, were they able to fix it?
I'm using Word 2003 and the Jaws versions mentioned above.
Thanks,
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