Re: Unwanted "Control"
- From: "KANE BROLIN" <kbrolin65@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:36:07 -0400
I think Sean is most likely correct. Pressing the CTRL key several times
does not change things, and Sticky Keys always are turned off. But I have
had this problem only since installing a different keyboard. I'll switch
out to another and see what happens.
-Kane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Unwanted "Control"
> hmm, I was going to guess it has more to do with your keyboard then jaws.
> Usually just pressing the controll key will unstick it. Turn sticky off
if you
> have it on and use a little can of compressed air on your keyboard and see
what
> happens. If you still have a problem. Try borrowing a different keyboard
and
> see if your controll issues persist. hth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Unwanted "Control"
>
>
> >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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