RE: Screen saver and JAWS
- From: "Renette Bloem" <renette@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 19:34:13 +0200
Chris
Please do.
Renette
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
Sent: 03 August 2007 18:55
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Screen saver and JAWS
Renet and all, thanks for pointing this out. Indeed, JAWS started as a user.
Due to it being a family machine my dad would not want JAWS talking as soon
as the log in screen came up, as he's sighted, so I just run JAWS manually.
The next time I go on it I will make this very change, which I actually
found out myself, and let you know how it goes. Thanks again!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renette Bloem" <renette@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: Screen saver and JAWS
> Hi
>
> The problem you experience is related to the fact that if a computer is
> booted then JAWS is running as a Windows service. Then JAWS is speaking
> not only when a user is logged in, but also at the login screen, screen
> to switch user accounts, or when the screen saver is active. However, as
> soon as JAWS is stopped the first time (because one sighted user might
> not want JAWS under his account) and started again (using for instance
> the JAWS icon on the desktop), JAWS is then running as normal application
> under this user account. This means if the screen saver is activated or
> one wants to switch user accounts, JAWS is no longer speaking.
>
> The obvious solution is to this problem is that when JAWS is started it
> is always started as service and not as application. This can be
> accomplished
> by changing the JAWS icon to run the "net start jfwservice". We have
> for convinience also setup the Ctrl+Alt+J hotkey to run this command.
>
> However, we have experienced that when using this feature extensively
> (i.e. switching users, other users taking off JAWS and then starting
> again as service with Ctrl+Alt+J), then on very rare occassions JAWS
> is started as service (can be verified from the list of running services),
> but JAWS is not speaking. In these cases it then helps to start JAWS
> both as service and as application. This again has in rare cases the
> effect that two instances of JAWS are speaking, i.e. like an echo. But
> at least have two JAWS speaking in few rare cases then none. To accomplish
> starting JAWS both as service and application, we have linked the JAWS
> icon and the Ctrl+Alt+J hotkey to a batch file with this content:
>
> @echo off
> rem Start JAWS as service (only then it works at the login screen)
> net start jfwservice
> rem Also now start JAWS as an application (seems necessary, otherwise
> rem if JAWS is taken off it won't start again and won't speak in some
> rem cases)
> "c:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\8.0\jfw.exe".
>
> Renette
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
> Sent: 03 August 2007 11:11
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jaws-users-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Screen saver and JAWS
>
>
> Hi all,
> I've noticed an observation with JAWS and Windows XP. My father's machine
> has multiple accounts set up, which is fair enough as it's a family
> machine.
> The screen saver comes on after 10 minutes, however when I press a key to
> get out of the screen saver and choose the user, JAWS doesn't want to
> speak
> at all. It was so bad that I had to force it off and turn it back on again
> to get it running again. I seem to remember this is a Windows XP bug that
> was fixed in Vista, but can someone verify this for me please? The screen
> saver in question is the default Windows XP one. In case you need it, my
> father's machine is a Dell Dimentions Ins2400. To resolve this, I set it
> to
> "(none)" in display properties. Thanks!
>
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