Re: Non-speaking Windows Explorer Files/New submenu

  • From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:23:07 -0400

Well... if it helps the New sub-menu reads correctly with 6.1U.



Thanks; Gene

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From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jaws Lite" 
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:19 AM
Subject: Non-speaking Windows Explorer Files/New submenu


> Hi,
> As some others have reported recently, I've found that in Jaws 6.0, the 
> New
> submenu of the Windows Explorer Files menu won't speak when I open it,
> except for the first option, Folder.  And that's only if I do a Say line
> (Insert 8).  If I explore the menu with the Jaws cursor, I can see that 
> all
> the options are still there.  But it's not functioning normally.
> Fortunately, I figured I could open a new text document via that menu if I
> want to by just hitting the initial letter T.  I'm aware I could launch
> Notepad from the Start menu, as well, but that isn't my point, here.  I'm
> trying to get this menu to work right, as it used to before I upgraded to
> Jaws 6.
>
> I wrote to Freedom Scientific to tell them about this and ask their help.
> The reply advised me to install the 6.1 update, saying that should fix the
> glitch.
>
> Well, fine.  But on these lists, at least on the JFW Freelists list, 
> there's
> been so much discontent about the 6.1 update, at least the first release 
> of
> it before that was supplanted by a second release april 15, that I'm 
> really
> hesitant to go to the trouble of downloading and installing it only to be
> faced with a host of new bugs and malfunctions.
>
> There hasn't been any more discussion of the 6.1 update lately.  Is that
> because everyone who was freaked out by the first release is now satisfied
> with the second?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Daniel
>
>
>
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