Re: An Outlook Express Jaws 8 issue-- one among many peculiarities
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:13:18 -0800
LOL. Sure I have, Bruce. But a repair didn't change any of a whole laundry
list of bad stuff this version is doing. It's really awful. You know what
fixes it up perfectly? Unloading Jaws 8 and launching Jaws 7! But that's not
quite tohe solution I'm hoping for.
Arghh.
prefectly?
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From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: An Outlook Express Jaws 8 issue-- one among many peculiarities
I have never experienced anything remotely like this. Have you trie d
arepair of JAWS?
Bruce
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Yardbird wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm not anticipating that anyone is likely to have a fix for this problem,
> which is just one out of a long list of Jaws 8 misbehaviors that I'm
> making
> a list of so that I can send FS a coherent report about the weird stuff
> this
> version does on my system. by which I don't mean my digestive system,
> although I'd have to say that the stress quotient from having to deal with
> this stuff must be causing me some of the heartburn I've been suffering
> lately. Anyway, it sounds dramatic to say so.
>
> But here's just one interesting misbehavior among many: When I have an
> email
> open with active links in it, such as I get each morning from the New York
> times and Los Angeles times with selections of headlines with links for
> going to read them online, or when someone posts a helpful message about
> some information available at some blind tech site, and I come to that
> link
> with my cursor and Enter on it, Internet Explorer properly launches if it
> isn't already running, and the page that URL belongs to loads. I can hear
> this in progress by reading the OE status line with Insert Page Down.
>
> so far, all that's normal. But here's what happens that is really weird,
> if
> I stay in the open email and don't get out of there immediately to go into
> the browser: Jaws begins to read downward in the email from the point
> where
> I clicked on that link, and won't stop unless I catch it, hit Control to
> shut Reed up, and then arrow back up to where I meant to leave the cursor
> at
> that link before proceeding down the email. Jaws just takes off on its own
> and tries to go on reading the rest of the email. I've never had this
> happen
> before, and it took me some time before I understood clearly what was up
> and
> learned to ignore the confusing distraction of hearing this stuff while
> trying to figure out if the Web page was loading. it's even caused me to
> lose my place in the email because, check this out, I might stop Jaws from
> reading the email, but then it starts talking about the opening Web page,
> as
> if I'd been taken to it the way you are when clicking on a link in an
> email
> launches the browser. But in these cases, the browser will already have
> been running, and in fact I'm still with the open email on screen in front
> of me. But nonetheless, Jaws is happily reporting that the page is 20 per
> cent, 24 per cent, 50 per cent, 100 per cent loaded and then that it has
> nine frames and 360 links. While I'm still actually in the open email.
>
> It's tricky for me to figure this out, but with my limited vision, I was
> able to look carefully at the screen and realize that what was on it was
> still Outlook Express with an open message. Until I figured it out, I was
> doing stuff like pressing Control Home to go to the top of the loading Web
> page, which sounded as if Jaws were just reading down it without my
> consent,
> already. And of course, it turned out I was pressing Control Home in the
> open email, and losing my place in it, which is a pain.
>
> So, I hope this sounds amusing, because I admit it's pretty goofy. But
> what
> I want to know is, has anybody else experienced this particular thing? Or
> is it just me, as we say? Just kidding. I don't think there's anything the
> matter with my system and its configuration, Jaws-wise.
>
> So?
>
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