Grant, I went into the verbosity manager and it was set on highlighted, so for trial I set it on all, right? It then started saying the menu choices, but as you most likely know it now says way to much info, HAHA! So there must be some other setting to change things to only the highlighted choices? Thanks so much, Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Hardy" <hardy_grant@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Re: No speech on any menu item > As silly as this seems, have you set your screen echo to Highlighted? If not, JAWS won't read menu items as you move through the menus. > The only alternative I can think of is to arrow through the menu, pressing the SayLine command (insert+up arrow) on every menu choice. > Does this help? > > Grant > ----- Original Message ----- > From: meangene > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: No speech on any menu item > > > When I had that problem, Freedom Scientific helped me to change the > settings to their correct settings. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steggall" <plsteggall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "JFW mailing lists" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:43 PM > Subject: No speech on any menu item > > > > > > Hello listers: > > > > At this time I'm using JAWS 5.0 beta. When ever I hit the alt button > or > > the right mouse button or whatever, it says, "Menu bar or context menu > open, > > etc. etc." > > But it will not speak the menu choices what so ever... This is very > > frustrating and the only choices I can make are the ones inwhich positions > I > > have memorized. Can anyone help? > > Thanks in advance. > > Patrick > > > > > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to > jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > > > > > > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > <br />-- > <br />This message has been scanned for viruses and > <br />dangerous content by > <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/";><b>MailScanner</b></a>, and is > <br />believed to be clean. > <br />Mailscanner thanks <a href="http://www.transtec.co.uk/";>transtec Computers</a> for their support. > > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.