Re: OE Silences
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:41:55 -0700
Adrian,
Please, I think you're dramatically overestimating how troublesome it may be
to handle email as I do. Time constraints? What kind of time constraints?
How rushed are you, anyway? I don't understand that. Big decisions to make?
I don't get that, either. As for having to wait for something, no, I don't
have to sit like a passive dummy and listen to Jaws read the headers. Once
I've heard the message listed on the inbox list and chosen to press enter,
I've heard who sent it and the subject line, so when I click on it, I just
maximize the window with alt spacebar x and press control home and say all
and let 'er rip. Now, that takes all of about a second and a half , for
goodness' sake, not to offend the more prim among us. I don't see what there
is to make an argument about. if all that's too much to handle in a busy
day, I hope you're keeping up with things and not letting your blood
pressure and cholesterol beer too much into the danger zone under all that
pressure. :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: OE Silences
Thanks for your response, Vicky. I must have missed your earlier message. I
just now went through a series of list messages and found that waiting for
that amount of time does allow speech to return. But, as I'm sure you'd
agree, that time mounts up.
To respond to another suggestion, Yardbird's method has two drawbacks, if
time is a consideration. First, to escape out of a message is one decision,
then what to do with it another. Also, when you click on a message, you have
to wait a moment to suffer through all the headings. Before this 8.0.2107
upgrade, I'd press control to silence JAWS, then start reading the contents
of the next message. On an active list such as this one, skipping through
messages in this fashion, either deleting or saving from within the message
field, cumulatively saves time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicky Collins" <v-collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm not sure if you saw my message of last night where I talked about a
similar problem with OE. So, just in case, I'll ask to make sure. When you
get that silence after hitting the delete key, are you waiting several
seconds, say fifteen or twenty, to see if speech does start? Vicky Collins
v-collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I've had few of the problems some JAWS users have reported with JAWS 8,
except for little annoyances like JAWS saying buttons aren't available when,
in fact, they are. However, this latest JAWS update has created a new
problem in OE. When I go down a list of incoming messages, beginning with
the earliest received, JAWS goes silent after the second or third message I
delete. I'm referring to the process of reading a message, deleting it, and
having the next one open. To get JAWS speaking again, I find I need to press
alt-tab out of the message before going back in.
This experience of JAWS going silent is erratic. Sometimes JAWS does read
the next message.
One more factor. When I go into the task manager with alt-control-delete,
I'm finding that this updated version of JAWS seems to be using even more
memory than previous JAWS 8 updates. After I close JAWS to get its memory
usage back to a basic level, the OE silence problem occurs less frequently,
though it's still present.
Agreed, I should report the problem to FS, but I'm wondering if others are
experiencing this same behavior with JAWS 8.0.2107.
A.S.
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