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

Fri Jun 11 09:59:44 UTC 2021

Internet can also factor in here.  I upgraded my Internet and that
vastly reduced my problems.

On 6/11/21, Sanho Steele-Louchart via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Every. Single. Person I know who's had this issuehas had it on a Dell. It's
> so good to know I'm not just crazy. I mean, I might still be crazy, but at
> least this isn't a manifestation of it. Anyway, I've had the problem for a
> year. I finally got so sick of rebooting JAWS/NVDA every 30 minutes or so
> that I switched to a top-of-the-line computer, also from Dell. Same exact
> problems. IT has replaced and updated everything you can imagine in both
> machines. Still nothing. Both have 7 gigs of memory available both physical
> and virtual. Everything has been checked. And worst of all, when I loaned
> the weaker of the two machines to a sighted family member, it's never once
> acted up for her. It's 100% a screen-reader issue. There's something about
> these Dell machines that simply isn't working. Now try telling that to my
> state's VocRehab people.
>
> Sanho
>
>> On Jun 10, 2021, at 9:30 PM, Maura Kutnyak via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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