[real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
- From: "Duyahn Walker" <themusicman1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:07:57 -0500
I'll remember you to Reg! Lol!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reginald George" <adapt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:41 PM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
> No no. Don't tell him to call us. Help! Please? Just kidding.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duyahn Walker
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:08 AM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
>
> I would call FreedomScientific and see if they are able to reproduce the
> issue. I have had some wierd issues and sometimes, they are able to
> produce
> them, other times they aren't able to.
>
> Duyahn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:43 AM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
>
>
>> It's reader specific as I don't see the issues with Win-Eyes.
>>
>>
>> I used system restore to go back to a check point. I haven't been able to
>> find a reasonably recent full restore point. Is there a faster way to get
>> to
>> a specific kind of restore point other than clicking each date
>> individually
>> and looking?
>>
>> It's not an insert+s kind of thing. Too flipping weird.
>>
>> BTW, multiple malware/spyware scans all turn up negative.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Fettgather, Jim
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:18 AM
>> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
>>
>> Hi Mitch, did you ever actually use System Restore to roll back your PC
>> to
>> an earlier date?
>>
>> The only thing that I can come up with to cause Jaws to randomly repeat
>> letters in the way that you suggest is that the Jaws Screen Echo could
>> have
>> been toggled to All instead of highlighted. The command to toggle this
>> setting is Insert S.
>>
>> Just to determine whether there is a problem with your Jaws installation,
>> I
>> really would consider installing a demo copy of another version, any
>> version, all prior versions are available from the FS web site. Or,
>> install
>> the highly acclaimed NVDA.
>> www.nvda-project.org
>> There is a portable version that will not compromise your system in any
>> way
>> and works very well.
>>
>> In that way, you would know right away whether the problem is screen
>> reader
>> specific or symptoms of a problem with the OS.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mitchell D. Lynn [mailto:mlynn@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:54 PM
>> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>> Alt+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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