Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey

  • From: "tcivi31" <tcivi31@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:15:14 -0800

I haven't really been following this thread but I set up my shortcut, Alt Control plus J, after I installed version 8 and have had no problem. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey


Laura,
Well, this is really disconcerting. My first impression, obviously, was to presume that the first person to present this problem simply didn't realize
that the hotkey properties would have to be modified in the target field.
By the way, never before have I had a Jaws update to a new version revise
this field all by itself during install. You seem to be implying that this
could have happened? I mean, if things had been working normally.

Anyway, if you're having trouble like what you describe, something's pretty
fishy.  Because this is so irregular, I might have asked if you could get
someone sighted to look at that field and confirm what Jaws is reporting to
you, but my experience with Jaws suggest that you aren't being lied to, so
to put it.  It sounds as if no matter what you do with that field, your
input disappears.

Wow.  I'm just looking over my emails that arrived during the night, and I
hope someone eventually comes up with a solution.  Or even an explanation.
This is really strange, and I don't look forward to having to deal with it
when I install Version 8.

thanks for experimenting so thoroughly and reporting it.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey


I agree here.  I'm having the same problem as others on this list, but I
don't want a third party program to fix it.  It should work straight from
the Desktop, which is how I've set up all my hot keys previously.

So, I go to the Desktop, land on Jaws 8's icon, hit Alt-Enter for
Properties.

The Target field already reads:  "C:\Program Files\Freedom
Scientific\JAWS\8.0\jfw.exe"

I've verified that this is, indeed, where jfw.exe resides.

Now I tab to the Shortcut Key field.

I've tried the following:

Just hitting j (which should go with the default, control+alt+j).

Hitting control+alt+j directly.

Now I tab forward a couple times, and then back to this field. Usually, at
this point it says None, when it reads the hot key, though sometimes it
says, Control+altt.  (It doesn't say j at this point, just control plus
alt.)

This last time, it said Control+Alt+J, and I was happy.  So I exited Jaws
and tried to bring it up with the hot key. Nothing happened. I started it
manually, and went back to the Shortcut Key field, and it now says None
again.

I installed JAWS on Friday, when it was released to everyone, and the
computer has been rebooted several times since then.

Any thoughts?




-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Yardbird
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:13 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey

Jim,
don't you think it would be easy enough just to click on the icons's
properties, tab to the Target field, enter the path and the exec. filename,
and that would be that?  Why would you need some third party program?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey


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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Scott Van Gorp
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:50 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey


Hi List:
I've got a strange problem occurring with Jaws 8 on an xp pro laptop.   I
uninstalled Jaws 7 after installing 8, and for some reason, I cannot get a
hotkey ctrl+alt+j, or any other combination of that, to stick.  The window
in the properties is set to run maximized, but when I apply the settings, it
doesn't seem to take?  Fortunately, Jaws is set to come up on startup, so
that's not a problem there, but it would be good to have that hotkey back,
just in case.  Any ideas?

Scott Van Gorp




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