[real-eyes] Re: JAWS Expert Needed
- From: "Fettgather, Jim" <jfettgather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:18:25 +0000
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 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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