Re: Help! Everything's speaking in Jaws! Everything!
- From: "Adrian Spratt" <Adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:34:07 -0500
Bruce,
The caution you recommend is appropriate, and listers are wise to avoid
drastic solutions in the hope that easier ones will come in. I see from
another thread that I wrote "control key" when I meant "caps lock," so
you're also right that we should pause before sending in a suggestion.
Still, everyone recognized that yardbird was experiencing a really annoying
problem and clearly wanted to help. That's a spirit to be applauded.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <bruce@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Help! Everything's speaking in Jaws! Everything!
It's amazing how many bad suggestions have been placed for this one issue,
which Joel solved on his own. Two presses of JAWS key+s did the trick, but
the suggestions given ranged from rebooting to shutting down and restarting
to insert+spacebar to pressing insert+a. This is why advice on these lists
needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Bruce
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Zaheer Sheikh wrote:
Try pressing INSERT+SPACEBAR and check if the "Home Row" is set to "OFF".
Hope this helps.
Zaheer Sheikh
www.jfwcc.co.cc
On 3/2/09, Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: This never happened to
me before, and I hope there's a simple way to turn it off. I was just in a
Word document that I was editing, and for no reason I can remember I
accidentally hit the jaws key (insert key on my desktop) and something
around the upper left of my keyboard. Maybe it was the letter A, in fact
that's what I feel as if it was.
Well, whatever I did, all of a sudden jaws began speaking everything from
announcing my menu line, the clock every time it changes, the Word
measurements in inches now and then, and mysterious numbers now and then
like 1 or 4 or whatever,. I closed that document and came here into Outlook
Express to compose this plea for help, and even here jaws is speaking every
screen element is can find, speaking my every keystroke no matter that I use
Insert 2 to toggle it to words as I usually keep it set, and so forth. I can
hardly hear myself time because it's always speaking everything I type,
individual characters and then words and ten whole lines and I just can't do
anything to stop it.
Help. I'm hoping there's just one key combo I must have pressed while in
Word that set this off, and I am hoping dearly that it's a toggle so I can
stop all this crazy racket.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. it doesn't do any of this when I'm just reading what I've typed. But if
I'm typing, it starts all over again. if that's a clue to someone.
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