Re: a note about jaws 6 access to dos or console-based programs
- From: Chipmunks <chipmunks@xxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:26:50 +0100
there used to be a setting in the default.jss that if changed would have
read jaws almost perfectly for console apps both under the 9x and the NT
track of windows. Since I have not run 6.0, I do not know if this has been
changed, though.
Cheers,
Doris
At 02:06 PM 2/8/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>If you run win98, jaws still requires you to toggle the echo to all for good
>access to console applications such as telnet and the cygwin environment.
>However, if you use winxp, you can keep the echo to highlighted and jaws will
>read practically everything on the screen. Jaws still has some problems
>either
>clearing it's buffer or this may be problems related to clearing the
>screen from
>the windows api. For example, when I exited out of cygwin, jaws still spoke
>some cygwin info when i put focus on another application. A disterbing note
>about jaws and focus reguarding text editors:
>I was unable to place focus from the window of my text editor back to jaws by
>using alt-tab. Could have been anything that caused, maybe some background
>process, I wanted you to be aware of it. When alt-tabbing from my editor,
>called pfe32, jaws did not read the title bar or menu bar of jaws but of my
>editor. However when I went to close what I thought was pfe32, jaws gave
>me the
>quit jaws for windows dialog. My focus would read pfe32 twice eventhough
>I only
>had one instance of this program open. I don't know if this is a
>re-producable
>error, just wanted to make you aware.
>Sean
>
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