Re: un-muting jaws sound

  • From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:08:43 -0600

While I hesitate to recommend something I haven't tried, there is a 
program called Volume Tray on the www.jfwlite.com programs page. It 
sounds like it is what you all need.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherrie Gosling" <sillygoose4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: un-muting jaws sound


         Hi,
At least 3 times the computer has gotten muted and no one actually
did it.  I don't think we have the keyboards with mute on them but
sometimes computers have minds of their own.    I would imagine that
people are not muting it on purpose since the computer will not
function properly for a sighted person with Jaws turned on  and
muted.  It is very frustrating when it does happen, though.  I kept
thinking the Jaws was malfunctioning. Now I get a sighted person to
unmute it before I go into panic mode.
I would really love some way to do it myself.
Sherrie
At 10:45 PM 8/29/2006, you wrote:
>Carl,
>
>it all makes sense, but what kind of work environment are you in where 
>you
>can't get someone in charge to enforce a very simple accommodation:  No 
>one
>should do this.  Is this a huge, disorganized  office with so many 
>people
>that you can't control everyone?  Or you have no supervisor who can 
>tell
>them to stop doing this?  That is where your solution should be, not
>struggling to figure out some impossible way around their inconsiderate
>sabotage, is what I think.  What do you think?  Have you considered 
>that
>we're edging into ADA compliance territory, here?  you don't deserve to 
>be
>treated like this.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl J. Rose" <carl.rose1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:24 PM
>Subject: RE: un-muting jaws sound
>
>
>Yardbird,
>Yes, I constantly stress that the others in the office simply turn off
>jaws when they use a machine. However,  no matter how often I tell 
>them,
>some forget and they mess around with the system volume. When it is
>muted, it is really a problem.
>
>Also, some of our newer machines have speakers in the flat panel
>monitors. While these are very convenient and save space, changing the
>volume is often done from within a menu on the monitor unless you use
>the system volume.
>
>To further complicate the issue, we now have keyboards that have mute
>buttons right on them and sometimes they get inadvertantly pushed.
>Yikes!
>Thus, if Jaws would just include function keys for system mute and
>volume, they could save me a lot of frustration!
>
>Hope this makes sense.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Yardbird
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:16 AM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: un-muting jaws sound
>
>
>P.S.
>
>I just remembered that your original inquiry said that someone in your
>office was in the habit of turning down the sound on the computer, so
>that
>you couldn't use it after they had.  Well, again I take the chance that
>I'm
>not understanding the problem correctly,but I have to ask why they do
>this
>in the first place?  Is it just in order to silence Jaws because it
>annoys
>the sighted user?  Jaws is certainly worse than an annoyance to a
>sighted
>user, actually, because it can prevent normal computer usage and Web
>navigation using the mouse.  Can't you get them just to turn off Jaws?
>Teach them to press Insert F4, hit Enter, and that's that?  So, next
>time
>you boot up, if you have Jaws set to load at startup, everything will 
>be
>
>fine.  Or even if you don't have Jaws set that way, so long as the
>computer's running, you can use your hotkey to start Jaws.
>
>As I say, maybe I'm still not understanding this.  But that's what I
>think I
>remember being the source of the problem.  A person or persons at work
>who
>need to be instructed to simply turn off Jaws if they're using the
>computer,
>rather than play around with the system volume.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl J. Rose" <carl.rose1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:34 PM
>Subject: RE: un-muting jaws sound
>
>
>Yardbird et al:
>Thanks for your posts, but the problem is that when I start working on
>the machine, there is no sound.  While I can easily set up a speed key
>to start jaws, and I do, I cannot hear anything if they have sound
>muted. Hence, I can't hear all the prompts that would help me if I 
>can't
>immediately hear jaws talk.
>
>Maybe FS could build in a speed key for reliably un-muting the sound
>card?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Yardbird
>Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:45 PM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: un-muting jaws sound
>
>
>Hi,
>
>How about getting to the same set of controls a little more quickly by
>just
>pressing Insert F11 to put up your system tray list, hitting enter on
>the
>Volume option, and proceeding from there just as Michelle suggests?
>
>Just another possibility.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Salvas,Michel [NCR]" <Michel.Salvas@xxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:31 AM
>Subject: Re: un-muting jaws sound
>
>
>Hi, cjr,
>
>If you're talking about System sounds, here is the procedure.
>
>1. From the Start menu, press S for Settings then C for Control
>Panel.
>
>2. Press S until you get Sounds and Audio Devices and press ENTER.
>
>3. Make sure the Volume page is selected. If not, press CTRL+TAB
>until you get it.
>
>4. Press TAB until you get Device volume Mute and press SPACEBAR to
>uncheck it.
>
>5. Press ENTER to close the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties
>dialog box.
>
>Michel Salvas
>   -----Original Message-----
>From: "Carl J. Rose" <carl.rose1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: un-muting jaws sound
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:06:09 -0400
>
>Hi All...
>Often I go to use a computer in our office and that person has the 
>sound
>muted. Is there a way to reliably unmute the system with a jfw speed 
>key
>or other method?
>Thanks,
>cjr
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