RE: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
- From: "Starrett, Kimberly A., VBAPHILSDT" <kimberly.starrett@xxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:52:04 -0400
I never heard about the "stuck" modifier key thing though I see it all
the time when using outlook in a remote terminal session. The only way
I've ever found to address the problem was to reboot the machine, which
is far from ideal but does work.
Kim
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Farfar Carlson
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:40 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
Chris,
I'm almost with you on going back to JFW 11 but not yet.
I've encountered similar issues with navigating in a message area in
Outlook 2007 occasionally. I've found that it's usually because one of
the modifier keys are stuck (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Windows). Multiple
presses of left/right keys get this resolved and often I'm back in
business.
Of course this does not sound like how JFW 11 used to behave for me, but
it's been so long I wouldn't be a reliable reporter on behavior.
However it does happen with JFW 12.0.525 and has happened to some extent
for every version of JAWS as far back as 3.5. And of course the "stuck
key" is always blamed on the keyboard drivers used by MS. Big surprise.
Anyway thought I'd pass along that suggestion, just in case it makes
things easier for you.
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio
Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
----- Original Message -----
From: CrisMunoz54 <mailto:crismunoz54@xxxxxxxxx>
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:28
Subject: Jaws 11 and Word 2003 difficulties
Hello list,
With all the trouble that the latest Jaws release (12.0.1158)
has given me and others on these various slists, I have gone back to
using Jaws 11 (11.0.1476
I think it is) for now. Aside from the issues here and there
that have been fixed in the newer JFW 12 releases, I'm satisfied with
Jaws 11 over all.
There is one thing however that I am experiencing and because
it's been so long since I've used JFW 11, I can't recall if this was
present in Jaws 11 when
it was still the newest build.
When I open a Word document, be it by launching MicrosoftWord
itself or by composing an e-mail message through my Outlook 2003, I have
difficulty with getting
around the message field.
I can type in the subject field with no problems and can arrow
back and forth by character, word etc, but when I'm in the message field
for example, I can't
seem to do anything. Jaws will just read the line of text that
I'm on, but I am unable to arrow back and forth or up and down. Very
similar if I had the
virtual cursor turned off on a webpage. The same goes for when
I've got a Word document open. I can type fine and dandy, but once I try
using the various
say all commands, It's almost completely a no go. The say all
command works, but that's it.
I've tried switching the format from plane text to rtf to html
and it doesn't make a difference. I've also tried going from the normal
view to web etc in
the view menu and still nothing.
Sometimes, and for no reason, everything will work fine and I
can navegate text wit no problems, but the troubles explained above
happen more often than
not and because of this, I'm finding myself using JFW 11 for
pretty much everything, but when I have to type something or compose or
respond to an e-mail,
I'm switching between the two JFW versions. I can't figure out
why sometimes things will work fine and others, it's just not happening.
Is anyone else experiencing this and if so, were they able to
fix it?
I'm using Word 2003 and the Jaws versions mentioned above.
Thanks,
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