Hallo ted, well the engineer arrived and was amazed to hear the terrible rattle, it was like a hedge cutter in distress, then I pulled out the wedge shaped plug with full keyboard and silence reigned, we tried 2 other keyboards, but they had in a nut shell had it, however he had ordered a new keyboard for my desktop the dell windows 7 a really good one with keys just as I like, even so I fear I plaster some keys with bumpons and"lumps of clag it is a microsoft keyboard ordered on line,we then put the dell keyboard on this laptop I know it is not ideal,it tends to have numberpad stick at times and down arrow not work,but No death rattle! I had asked a friend who uses Jaws and programmes I do if that dreadful rattle would have damaged Jaws vocal cords, or the thing it speaks with, think is synth,I cannot spell it. friend said no, it would not, so all is ok for the moment I have typed all my life as my handwriting is poor,and it was easier for me, I had a tiny hermes portable, however and this baffles me, when I typed I did not make mistakes,and even up to the time I had to sadly give it up,I did not make spelling mistakes, did not even have a rubber handy. computers and spellchecking go hand in hand unless you are very good atspelling I fear I seem unable to put 2 words together without mistakes and punctuation gone to pot,and please believe me I am trying----- Original Message ----- From: Lisle, Ted (CHFS DMS) To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:24 PM Subject: RE: jaws rattle Having been a touch typist for (can it be) 47 years now, I'd probably use a regular keyboard at home anyway. The only time I ever used a notebook, I cheated with a regular keyboard. Our EEO coordinator, our Web mistress, and I were doing a presentation on assistive technology to a quarterly EEO meeting about 8 years ago, and I figured this was not the time to acquire a new set of keyboard skills with company looking on. I got some great feedback, and I think the assembled company was impressed with JAWS' capability. Ted From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 3:51 PM To: org, jfw@freelists. Subject: jaws rattle the dreadful loud rattle sound from jaws andxp laptop continued,I recorded it ,so on sunday engineer can her it, pondering on sound cards as he did update the laptop completely, after the third death rattle in one afternoon, I pulled out the full keyboard I am using since it is easier than trying to use laptop keyboard, I heard a ping, as it left system and the rattle stopped at once! the full keyboard has a wedge shape plug and the round pin on keyboard lead has round point and it plugs into a lead with two leads,I am not explaining this well, but I suspect somewhere either the keyboard lead or the wedge shaped plug is the cause, but since I have always used a full plug in keyboard on my lap so I can sit comfortably it must be something external and not the sound card, well it started as a Jaws problem as it was Jaws that sounded in agony and I thought Jaws 11 was a gonner! Dorothy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.829 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2936 - Release Date: 06/13/10 20:45:00