[blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?

Fri Jun 11 02:29:05 UTC 2021

I have to chime in! this past year, my one L year, was peppered with countless, infuriating, crashes and all other manner of bad behavior on the part of my brand new, souped up, Dell. The motherboard was replaced. The hard drive was replaced. And even still it is constantly acting up in various ways.

Am I the only one who finds this to be outrageous? All I do is email, PDF and Word document reading, and Internet searching of various shapes and sizes. I feel like this is a failure on the part of the people who design our software. They have a captive audience and they don’t care to make tools that work right. 

Sorry, not wearing my objective, scholarly legal hat. This truly has been the plague of my year, other than the actual plague that has beset us.

Sincerely,

Maura Kutnyak, M.P.A.
University at Buffalo 
School of Law, J.D. 
anticipated spring 2023
716-563-9882

> On Jun 10, 2021, at 5:09 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have had to upgrade my work laptop for this reason.  Google Chrome
> is a massive memory hog as well.  I've found that having too many
> Chrome tabs open and Jaws at the same time can cause a weaker machine
> to crash.
> 
>> On 6/10/21, Singh, Nandini via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I use neither program. However, it could be a memory issue. If you have
>> multiple assistive software running, Word docs, browsers, and email, that
>> can be quite demanding on the system. I have always added more memory to
>> help with the demands put on my work laptop, and I try to buy personal
>> laptops with generous solid state memory for the same reason.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Teresita Rios via
>> BlindLaw
>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:45 PM
>> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Teresita Rios <teresitarios22 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Do any of you use ZoomText or fusion?
>> 
>> [EXTERNAL]
>> 
>> I often get blue screens and lose some of what I was working on.
>> Sometimes I exit ZoomText and restart it, but just two nights ago I was
>> working on a mini note for a competition and it stopped working three times
>> during the night, and crashed or a blue screen appeared right before I
>> wanted to turn my materials in. Do you think it is my Dell?
>> Is there anything I can do?
>> I take timed final exams and in all of them it just blue screened, and I had
>> to force restart it.
>> I lost half of legislation and regulation. The good thing is that I save as
>> soon as I finish a paragraph so for the others I lost time and not much
>> material.
>> Do you think that i also becaus I have a lot of Word docs opened at the same
>> time?
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:27 PM Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <
>> blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Teresita,
>>> 
>>> What do you mean by crashing? The more specific, the better. I may
>>> have had similar issues. In my case, it appears to be JAWS and NVDA
>>> being incompatible with the graphics drivers on my Dell laptops. The
>>> more I read, the more JAWS and NVDA lag, until they finally crash and
>>> take the Windows environment with them. The problem happens with two
>>> different machines with the same drivers and operating system, and it
>>> only started happening after a Windows update sometime last year. The
>>> only solution for me has been to restart my screen-reader before it
>>> crashes.
>>> 
>>> Warmth,
>>> Sanho
>>> 
>>> On 6/10/21, Teresita Rios via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> Hello Friends.
>>>> This past year my computer started crashing a lot and acting glitchy.
>>>> finals were horrible. Have any of you had this constant crashing
>>>> problem with ZoomText and Fusion? Who did you contact? Because at
>>>> school they say my computer has the IO and hardware to handle it. so we
>>>> are lost.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you!
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