Re: Unwanted "Control"

  • From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:05:26 +0100

I am not seeing this with JAWS 8.0.0423 demo. Try updating to the latest
version of JAWS 8. Hope that helps.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:48:45 -0400, "Kane Brolin" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hi, folks.  I have a control issue that, thankfully, does not involve
> my mother or thwarted childhood desires!
> 
> What happens is this:  At times, when I'm using JFW 8 with IE 6, my PC
> begins to think that every keyboard command I invoke has a CTRL key in
> it, even if it does not.  Not with all windows that are open, either,
> so I cannot predictably repeat the experiment to get this to happen.
> But about once per day, I find that when I try to close out a window
> with ALT+F4, JFW echoes ALT+CTRL+F4.  If I try to switch between
> windows with ALT+TAB, JFW will echo ALT+CTRL+Tab and I won't leave the
> affected window.  I can work around this somewhat by highlighting the
> desktop with CTRL+m, then carefully changing to the window I want.
> But if I somehow land back in the affected window--usually a Web
> screen--the same phenomenon reappears.  The only way I can get rid of
> this extra CTRL character is to shut down the PC and re-start
> altogether.  I didn't particularly notice this with Ver. 7, but it
> happens all the time now that JFW 8 is my default screen reader at
> work.
> 
> Has anyone else dealt with this before? or succeeded in correcting it
> permanently?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Kane
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