Re: a note about jaws 6 access to dos or console-based programs

  • From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:18:34 -0700

What was that setting under previous versions of jaws?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chipmunks" <chipmunks@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: a note about jaws 6 access to dos or console-based programs


there used to be a setting in the default.jss that if changed would have
read jaws almost perfectly for console apps both under the 9x and the NT
track of windows. Since I have not run 6.0, I do not know if this has been
changed, though.

Cheers,

Doris


At 02:06 PM 2/8/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>If you run win98, jaws still requires you to toggle the echo to all for good
>access to console applications such as telnet and the cygwin environment.
>However, if you use winxp, you can keep the echo to highlighted and jaws will
>read practically everything on the screen.  Jaws still has some problems
>either
>clearing it's buffer or this may be problems related to clearing the
>screen from
>the windows api.  For example, when I exited out of cygwin, jaws still spoke
>some cygwin info when i put focus on another application.  A disterbing note
>about jaws and focus reguarding text editors:
>I was unable to place focus from the window of my text editor back to jaws by
>using alt-tab.  Could have been anything that caused, maybe some background
>process, I wanted you to be aware of it.  When alt-tabbing from my editor,
>called pfe32, jaws did not read the title bar or menu bar of jaws but of my
>editor.  However when I went to close what I thought was pfe32, jaws gave
>me the
>quit jaws for windows dialog.  My focus would read pfe32 twice eventhough
>I only
>had one instance of this program open.  I don't know if this is a
>re-producable
>error, just wanted to make you aware.
>Sean
>
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