Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws

  • From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:14:59 -0500

Hi, thanks a lot. I will give this a try. Sounds like it's the flash thathas 
been giving me this problem all this time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "w4hc" <w4hc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws


> It is under the HTML option. Go to HTML then control tab to the Misc tab 
> then tab over to ignore flash on web pages and check it. I was having the 
> same problem on the DRUDGE REPORT and this took care of my problem.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ricque" <ricque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>
>
>> Hi Chevelle,
>> I don't remember exactly where, but you can set Jaws to ignore flash 
>> content
>> on wevbpages.
>> It may be in the configuration manager, under html options.
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> Richard Justice
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>
>>
>>> John, you are able to move down the page with no problem? Jaws wasn't 
>>> slow
>>> or anything? It read the information right away? If that's the case you
>> are
>>> lucky. Even when I go to the www.deankoontz.com, and I want to read an
>>> excert from one of his books, when I click on that excert link jaws will
>>> either stop speaking in the middle of the line or it just won't speak at
>>> all, and when I press the down arrow sometime it will start to speak for 
>>> a
>>> bit then qucik, sometimes it just won't speak at all.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>>
>>>
>>> > hmmm, it worked for me no problem, I didn't even get that info bar
>> sound,
>>> > or
>>> > if I did I ignored it but I was able to do anything on the page I
>> wanted.
>>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> > From: "Steve Gomes" <finnygomes@xxxxxxx>
>>> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:30 PM
>>> > Subject: Re: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >>I just went to fox.com and it made a funny beep like there is flash or
>>> >> something. I am getting nothing.
>>> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> >> From: "chevelle" <chevelle33@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 10:12 AM
>>> >> Subject: I get so frustrated with Jaws
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hello!, can someone please! try and explain why Jaws behaves the way
>> it
>>> >>> does! I've noticing this behavior happening more and more. I just
>> tried
>>> >>> to
>>> >>> go to www.fox.com. For some reason Jaws was very very very
>>> >>> nonresponsive.
>>> >>> It would take a long long long long time when pressing the down 
>>> >>> arrow
>>> >>> keys
>>> >>> for jaws to go down the next line. Why is this happening on certain
>>> >>> webpages. Then Jaws just froze. This time I couldn't even unload 
>>> >>> jaws
>> to
>>> >>> reload jaws. Sometimes I will be reading e-mail, I will click on a
>> link,
>>> >>> and jaws will just freeze. Sometimes I can unload jaws and reload 
>>> >>> jaws
>>> >>> and
>>> >>> it will work fine, but why should I have to keep doing this. This 
>>> >>> gets
>>> >>> me
>>> >>> so frustrated. The other screen reader doesn't freeze up so this 
>>> >>> tells
>>> >>> me
>>> >>> it is a Jaws issues. Using jaws 5.1 windows xp. I don't any other
>>> >>> programs
>>> >>> running in the background. At times I just want to smash all the 
>>> >>> jaws
>>> >>> disks and my laptop. There has to be something about this stupid 
>>> >>> jaws
>>> >>> program that it acts this way, and why fre
>>> >>> edomscientific doeosn't do a better job with their overpriced 
>>> >>> product.
>>> >>> The
>>> >>> times jaws goes really really really slow on a webpage, if I am able
>> to
>>> >>> unload jaws I can load the other screen reader, and it acts just 
>>> >>> fine
>> on
>>> >>> the webpage.
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