Re: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties

  • From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 12:35:56 -0700

Kim,

Next time just rapidly press the left/right/left/right etc. pair of ctrl, then 
alt, then shift. This usually unsticks, and is one heck of a lot faster than 
rebooting...and it is a good way to exercise your finger muscles.

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: Starrett, Kimberly A., VBAPHILSDT 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:52
  Subject: RE: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties


  I never heard about the "stuck" modifier key thing though I see it all the 
time when using outlook in a remote terminal session. The only way I've ever 
found to address the problem was to reboot the machine, which is far from ideal 
but does work.

  Kim



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  From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Farfar Carlson
  Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:40 PM
  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 
    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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