RE: JAWS 11 Problems
- From: "Mark Furness" <mfurness@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:33:22 -0500
By any chance is your default home page set as a "blank" page?
If so, change it to anything but that.
I changed mine to Google and my similar problem stopped.
HTH Mark
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Adrian Spratt
Sent: December-01-09 10:53 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: JAWS 11 Problems
I installed JAWS 11 on Sunday after someone pointed out that it handles AP
mode better than previous versions. I am experiencing the following
problems:
1. I repeatedly but inconsistently encounter silence on webpages. JAWS will
announce how many headings, links, etc., the page contains, but won't read
anything. If I press "h," JAWS will verbalize, "No more headings on this
page," even though it just told me there are five.
I've tried the usual methods, such as alt-tab and insert-escape, to get JAWS
to speak, but no luck. I've also turned on the new focus alert, but although
other people report similar problems to what I'm describing, in my case JAWS
isn't even announcing a focus loss.
2. The concept behind anchoring placemarkers is good. However, I've come
upon a strange quirk. I've experimented with them at a website that is
unfortunately password-protected. Several placemarkers I've added won't
stick. Instead of landing me at that spot, "k" takes me to the first
heading. The solution I found by chance was to place the anchored
placemarker at the nearest link. It's a workaround, not an ideal solution.
Any thoughts?
3. The word count feature is potentially useful, but I'd like to copy the
results in order to explore and manipulate them. However, I haven't found a
way to do so, whether by a simple control-a, control-c command sequence or
by virtualizing the window with the revised insert-alt-w command. Has anyone
discovered a way to copy these data?
4. As for the AP mode problem, I'm having more trouble than before at
www.yahoo.finance.com
In addition to using AP mode, that website likes to stream stock quotes at
you. Before JAWS 11, I figured out how to tab to both AP moade and quotes
and in each case press enter to turn it off. However, now the quotes are
streaming away and I can't get JAWS to the quotes link to disable this
feature. They completely disrupt JAWS.
I plan to upgrade my RAM from 512 MG to 3.5 GB this weekend. Does anyone
know if this upgrade could help overcome these problems? Also, can anyone
assess the risk of my authorizations not being recognized? I assume with the
hardware change, I will be called upon to produce my authorization disc. My
system is XP Pro.
Thanks for any ideas.
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