[real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:04:35 -0500
Hmmm! Never heard of this one before. I do wonder if there is an update that
did do something strange.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:54 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] JAWS Expert Needed
> Can anyone tell me if there is a setting in Windows or in JAWS that would
> cause it to repeat voicing of letters and buttons when using the JAWS
> cursor? This started happening a few days back in a single program, but
> now
> I am starting to see issues all over the place. If I try, for example, to
> read icons on the desktop character by character, it will voice each
> letter
> anywhere from 1 to four times. Ditto if I try to check a filename in
> Windows
> Explorer. I have to actually start to rename the file to know for sure how
> it is spelled. In fact, all edit boxes seem to work correctly with the
> JAWS
> cursor; it is just in lists and things like buttons that have the issue.
>
> Menus have started acting strange as well. I have loads of IE Favorites,
> and
> while that large list worked fine last week, it scarcely works at all now.
> Alt+A opens the list, but cursoring up and down gives no speech at all for
> several presses, and then starts skipping randomly through the list. Same
> sort of issues with the Start Menu. There, however, it adds a new twist;
> impulsively opening folders and then says that they contain nothing. It
> acts
> a bit like a crazed drunken keyboard, and I swapped that out for a wired
> version. No good. Blown out display drivers and reinstalled. Also no good.
> Checked startup programs and services, and can't find anything there that
> isn't supposed to be, and virus scans were all negative.
>
> My fear is it's the work of an update from some program--perhaps Windows
> itself. Oh, and I did try restoring prev configuration/. All I have for
> the
> past few weeks is System Check points. Anyone know of a fast way to find
> the
> last full restore point in XP SP 3? BTW, my version of JAWS is pretty old:
> version 7.x.
>
>
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