Re: jaws 6.1

  • From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:06:40 -0400

Try shutting down Jaws and restarting it. This usually worked for me when 
5.0 did it.

Gene


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: jaws 6.1


> Ah.  I understand.  I just wasn't accustomed to hearing screen elements 
> like
> rows of icons, or menu items, referred to as a "list," but I see how you
> could put it that way.  this sounds like a really daunting problem.  I 
> hope
> you figure it out without too much agony.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: jaws 6.1
>
>
> The desktop itself.  When I refer to desktop, I'm refering to what you end
> up
> with shortcuts.  No the aria with all the shortcuts is not technically in 
> a
> list
> the way win explorer is because it's multi-column, but jaws says listview,
> and
> whether an item is selected or not.  The problem is when I'm in this list
> view,
> jaws doesn't say what is selected.  It says selected and maybe something
> like 1
> of 20, but I have know where I am.  If I hit a letter, it doesn't say what
> I've
> landed on.  For example, if I hit j for jaws It will move between the jaws
> icons
> on the desktop, but I don't know which one I'm at.  Now in my origonal 
> post,
> I
> said listview on the desktop specifically because once I turned msaa on, 
> the
> listview worked in winamp library.  Yes I changed the msaa feature in the
> default config file.  Something that doesn't work well in 6.1 that worked
> well
> in 6.  Maybe I need to run the display chaining manager again.  Anyway 
> that
> is
> what I meant.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:05 AM
> Subject: Re: jaws 6.1
>
>
> could you please give an example of a list view on the desktop?  All I'm
> familiar with being on the desktop are program shortcut icons on the main
> part of it, then the task bar, the system tray when you open it with 
> Insert
> f11, and then the start menu and its submenus.  In which of these areas 
> are
> you encountering a list view?
>
> thanks.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: jaws 6.1
>
>
> You have to install them both in seperate directories.  I think that's the
> default.  I've seen one problem where 6.1 won't read what is selected in a
> list
> view while I'm on the desktop
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Melia" <uncle.jam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:07 PM
> Subject: jaws 6.1
>
>
> I down lowed jaws but had problems with 6.0 & 6.1 don't know what I did
> wrong but I uninstalled 6.1 & it took part of 6.0. I told the uninstaller 
> to
> keep jaws settings & other things. It took around an hour. I finally got 
> 6.0
> reinstalled again. I am not the brightest light bulb in the room but I 
> think
> f s is getting very sloppy.
>
>
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